Mullainathan et al [Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2008] present a model of coarse thinking or analogy based thinking. The essential idea behind coarse thinking is that people put situations into categories and the values assigned to attributes in a given situation are affected by the...

An anchoring adjusted currency option pricing formula is developed in which the risk of the underlying currency is used as a starting point which gets adjusted upwards to arrive at the currency call risk. Anchoring bias implies that such adjustments are insufficient. The new formula converges to...

Here, we show that agents who are ex ante rational, if allowed to interact locally, may generate clustering of volatility. Hence, there is no need to reject the notion of rationality in agent based models.

This study aimed to a stock portfolio formed with composite of companies market (PER, PBV, ROE, EPS, PSR, and B/M, VaR) and accounting performance (ROE, and EPS) also their market capitalization in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2003-2006. Some clarification need to achieved, such as: real...

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has dominated finance theory for over thirty years; it suggests that the market beta alone is sufficient to explain stock returns. However evidence shows that the cross-section of stock returns cannot be described solely by the one-factor CAPM. Therefore,...

This study aimed to test five fundamental factors (growth, profitability, leverage, liquidity, and efficiency) and two market ratios (earning ratio, and price earning ratio) that predicted to influence stock price in several groups of manufacturing industries listed in Jakarta Stock Exchange...

This study aimed to clarify the value of the bias beta stocks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and make corrections to the bias value using Scholes and Williams, Dimson, and Fowler and Rorke. Results of this study indicate that the stock beta is the value of bias, besides the results...