Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 13 Issue 4

Editorial

Robert Hudson, Gulnur Muradoglu

Personality traits and investor sentiment

H. Kent Baker, Satish Kumar, Nisha Goyal

This paper examines the relation between the Big Five model of personality traits and behavioral biases (overconfidence, disposition effect, anchoring, representativeness, metal…

What were they thinking? Firms' expectations since the financial crisis

Annalisa Ferrando, Ioannis Ganoulis, Carsten Preuss

This paper explores how firms formed their expectations about the availability of bank finance since the financial crisis. Various expectations hypotheses that incorporate…

Investor attention and market correction

Zhongdong Chen

This study disentangles the investor-base effect and the information effect of investor attention. The former leads to a larger investor base and higher stock returns, while the…

Ambiguity aversion and experiential learning: implications for long-term savings decisions

Bryan Foltice, Rachel Rogers

This paper evaluates potential methods for reducing ambiguity surrounding returns on equity to improve long-term savings decisions.

Can financial literacy overconfidence be predicted by narcissistic tendencies?

Cagri Hamurcu, Hayriye Dilek Hamurcu

In this study, it is investigated whether narcissistic tendencies can predict financial literacy overconfidence.

Investor sentiments and pricing errors

Rahul Verma, Priti Verma

This paper computes the pricing errors of S&P 500 index by employing the valuation model developed by Doran et al. (2009) and investigates its response to individual and…