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title: Global FOMO in Financial Markets
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5214893/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5214893
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5214893
featured: 2025-04-16
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
---


# Global FOMO in Financial Markets

The Global Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Index, using Google Trends data, forecasts lower stock returns, decreased volatility, and weaker Sharpe ratios, especially in democratic countries, showing the role of psychology and politics in finance.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5214893
- Identifier: SSRN 5214893
- Released: 2025-04-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 93 (2025-04-16): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-16/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility

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