Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 16 Issue 4

Risk preference, payday loans and other alternative financial services

Song Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine how individual risk preference influences the borrowing of payday loans – a prevalent type of cash loan in the USA with exorbitantly…

How do personality traits affect investors' decision on crypto market including cryptocurrencies and NFTs?

Ji Luo, Qingning Cao, Shuguang Zhang

The purpose of the research paper is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and investment decisions in the crypto market, including cryptocurrencies and NFTs…

Financial literacy bias: a comparison between students and nonstudents

Helder Sebastião, Nuno Silva, Pedro Torres, Pedro Godinho

This work uses survey data from the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (Comissão de Mercado de Valores Mobiliários – CMVM) to examine financial literacy and literacy bias…

Behavioral biases of cryptocurrency investors: a prospect theory model to explain cryptocurrency returns

Manisha Yadav

The study aims to test prospect theory (PT) predictions in the cryptocurrency (CC) market. It proposes a new asset pricing model that explores the potential of prospect theory…

Examining the association between robo-advisory and perceived financial satisfaction

Zefeng Bai

Robo-advisory has become an increasingly popular asset management tool in recent decades. This paper studies the association between robo-advisor usage and perceived financial…

The impact of CEO narcissism and optimism on capital structure under pandemic conditions

Elena Fedorova, Alexandr Nevredinov, Pavel Drogovoz

The purpose of our study is to study the impact of chief executive officer (CEO) optimism and narcissism on the company's capital structure.

The growth of the real estate corporate bond market in Vietnam: the role of investor sentiment

Nhung Thi Nguyen, An Tuan Nguyen, Dinh Trung Nguyen

This paper aims to examine the effects of investor sentiment on the development of the real estate corporate bond market in Vietnam.

Air pollution and stock market returns: actual effect vs public attention in an Indian context

Anirudh Singh, Madhumita Chakraborty

This paper analyzes how air pollution and the public attention to it influence the returns of stocks in the Indian context.

Conscientiousness and entrepreneurship

Sarah Khalaf

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of conscientiousness on entrepreneurship over and above the impact of other factors that are associated with entrepreneurship…