This paper presents a model in which rational and emotional investors are compelled to make decisions under uncertainty in order to ensure their survival. Using a neurofinancial setting, we show that, when different investor types fight for market capital, emotional traders tend not only to...

All over the world there is a strong infatuation towards real estate. Nevertheless there seems to be a (sub)conscious omission in incorporating this stylised fact into the academic literature. The decision of buying residential property may be one of the most important transaction people will...