Cognitive biases lead entrepreneurs to overinvest in their own companies, over exposing themselves to idiosyncratic risk. Our novel theoretical model explains entrepreneurial under-diversification by measuring the amount of potential bias in entrepreneurs' portfolio allocations brought about by...

This paper investigates whether the market reaction to second-hand information is due to price pressure or information dissemination. We use the perspective of attention grabbing to analyze the market reaction to the dissemination of analysts' recommendations published in print media. This...

Individual characteristics are important in explaining investor trading behavior. The clients of a small cooperative bank are analyzed over the three-year period 2005-2007 to measure the effect that age, gender, income, job position and status of online trader has on the number of stock trades...