Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between investors’ demographic characteristics (age, gender, education level and experience) and their investment decisions through behavioral factors (sentiment, overconfidence, overreaction and underreaction and herd behavior) as...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of financial liberalization and foreign Islamic bank entry on the performance of domestic Islamic banks, and credit availability to the private sector. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the weighted least squares method to estimate...

We examine the effects of the American International Group, Inc.'s (AIG's) loss announcements and the Federal Reserve's subsequent innovation in the financial sector. Analysis of seemingly unrelated regression on the returns of four financial industries -- banking, insurance, brokerage firms and...