Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 15 Issue 6

Risk attitudes and demand for insurance: micro evidence from Ghana

Patrick Opoku Asuming, Deborah Aba Gaisie

The purpose of this study is to understand how risk attitudes drive demand for different types of insurance amongst Ghanaians.

Determinants of annual reports complexity in the United States of America: an application of the Tobit model

Fatimazahra Bendriouch, Imad Jabbouri, Mohamed M'hamdi, Harit Satt, Sara Katona, Rhita Serir

This paper explores the factors that shape the complexity of company annual reports in the USA. Using a general-to-specific modeling approach, this study examines the determinants…

Empirical evidence of attribute framing: the case of unsophisticated IPO investors

Albert Rapp

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the empirical relevance of attribute framing in the financial marketplace.

Management accountants' susceptibility to overconfidence: the overplacement perspective

Zack Enslin

Overconfidence bias is considered to be a very influential decision-making bias in the business environment. This paper aims to identify the susceptibility of management…

Personality traits and behavioral biases of Indian financial professionals

H. Kent Baker, Sujata Kapoor, Tanu Khare

Financial professionals are increasingly important in the Indian financial system. Our study examines the association between the Big Five personality traits and Indian financial…

Socially responsible investment behavior: a study of individual investors from India

Renu Jonwall, Seema Gupta, Shuchi Pahuja

Socially responsible investment (SRI) is a niche and upcoming investment strategy in India. Very few researches have been conducted on SRI in the Indian context. This study…

Does herding behavior explain the contagion of the COVID-19 crisis?

Achraf Ghorbel, Yasmine Snene, Wajdi Frikha

The objective of this paper is to investigate the pandemic’s function as a driver of investor herding in international stock markets, given that the current coronavirus disease…

CIO equity compensation and IT investment: the moderating role of board monitoring and evidence of managerial myopia

Serdar Turedi, Asligul Erkan-Barlow

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of managerial myopia on information technology (IT) investment. Specifically, it aims to investigate the influence of chief…

The association between financial literacy confidence and financial satisfaction

Blain Pearson, Thomas Korankye

This study examines the association between financial literacy confidence and financial satisfaction. The authors posit that overconfident poor performers will experience greater…

Democracy and access to finance in developing countries

Omar Farooq, Khondker Aktaruzzaman

The aim of this paper is to document the effect of democracy on the financing constraints faced by private firms.