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Herd Behaviour in Financial Markets and Model Agencies

Great parallel between financial market and the modeling world on social / behavioral similarities: how supermodels are like toxic assets

In the face of complex decisions in a highly uncertain environment, modeling agency clients (and financial investors) pick what everybody else is choosing, triggering the social-induced feedback loop (“Matthew effect” or “the rich get richer”).

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