Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 13 Issue 2

An investigation of policy incentives for delaying public pension benefit claims

Tomoki Kitamura, Kunio Nakashima

The purpose of this study is to examine the potential and cost of policy incentives for individuals to defer public pension (social security) claims.

Financial risk-taking related to individual risk preference, social comparison and competition

Tommy Gärling, Dawei Fang, Martin Holmen, Patrik Michaelsen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how social comparison and motivation to compete account for elevated risk-taking in fund management corroborated by asset market…

Do narcissistic CEOs rock the boat?

Tom Aabo, Frederik Hoejland, Jesper Pedersen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of narcissistic supply for the association between CEO narcissism and corporate risk taking.

Pleasing the crowd: the determinants of securities crowdfunding success

Elena Smirnova, Katarzyna Platt, Yu Lei, Frank Sanacory

Since May 2016, small firms have been able to issue debt and equity securities in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission's “Regulation Crowdfunding”. This…

Bounded rationality in a P2P lending market

Dongwoo Kim

This study seeks to provide a systematic analysis of bounded rationality expressed by individual lenders in a Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market.

The influence of Google search index on stock markets: an analysis of causality in-mean and variance

Mariano Gonzalez Sanchez

This empirical work studies the influence of investors’ Internet searches on financial markets.