This study examines whether the framing mode (narrow versus broad) influences the stock investment decisions of individual investors. Motivated by the experimental evidence, which suggests that separate decisions are more likely to be narrowly framed than simultaneous decisions, we propose trade...

According to John Searle's theory of human ontology, intentional mental states such as beliefs and wants rely on non-intentional, Background, dispositions to produce rational behaviour. The distinction between intentional and non-intentional states is used as the basis on which to understand the...

В статье представлены основы теории поведенческих финансов, главной из которых является теория перспектив Д. Канемана и А. Тверски, определены предпосылки ее...

(paper is in Dutch) This study surveys the behavioural finance literature. It discusses both the literature that incorporates behavioural considerations into rational models, and the literature that concentrates on the role of prospect theory and the effect of cognitive-psychological mechanisms...

This paper selectively reviews the literature on behavioural finance, focusing on the aggregate market implications of the behavioural biases that this literature has identified. Advocates of behavioural economics and finance argue that economic agents behave in a way which departs significantly...

The findings of behavioural economics can help guide public policy, particularly regulatory design. While behavioural economics has only recently arisen as a defined discipline, many long-established regulations employed by governments are found to be consistent with the findings of behavioural...

This study measures risk and loss aversion using Prospect Theory and examines the impact of emotions on these parameters. Students’ emotions were manipulated using information on rising deaths due to drug violence in Mexico and youth unemployment and Tanaka et al. (2010) methodology was...

We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...

Recent research distinguishes an individual's decision utility, inferred from her observed choices, from her experienced utility, which more closely matches the notion of happiness. Using various estimation techniques with a unique experimental data set, we test whether post-choice satisfaction...