Financial and investment professionals along with their clients reveal a wide array of psychological biases that can result in flawed judgments and decisions. Understanding these biases is important for these professionals to ensure their clients are receiving the best advice and information....

“Financial Behavior: An Overview” is the introduction chapter for the book Financial Behavior: Players, Services, Products, and Markets edited by H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, and Victor Ricciardi. The book provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on the financial...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the changes in European percentage sales before and after the Euro crisis for both US‐based and European‐based companies, both overall and across industries. We find that larger firms are associated with a decrease in return on assets (ROAs) in the...

Financial professionals and their clients exhibit a wide collection of behavioral biases that many times result in imperfect judgments and outcomes. Understanding these cognitive and affective factors are important for financial planners and advisors to ensure their clients are receiving the...

In this paper, we investigate announcement effects and longer-term performance associated with the release of the Forbes’s Best Banks survey. Although the market reacts positively to the announcement, overall event window effects are negative. Raw and risk-adjusted returns are statistically...