Purpose: This article deals with the retail investors' decision-making under risk, firstly addressing several theories of decision-making under risk. Following this theoretical framework, an analysis on investment strategies on the Croatian capital market has been conducted....

An efficient market should not show any anomalies. When new information reaches a market which is efficient, it should automatically translate into prices of assets, which ought to eliminate the possibility of gaining an advantage over other investors, thus preventing excess profits. However,...

In this study, we examine several aspects of the momentum strategies such as profitability, risk-based explanation, and decomposition of the momentum profits. For this purpose, we use weekly and monthly data of 581 firms listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the period 2004-2014. We...

Because dividends are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains, as stock with a higher yields should have a higher expected return than a stock whose return is expected to result mostly from price appreciation. Adding yield to the traditional Security Market Line results in a "market plane"...

Investors' psychology, sentiment, attitude towards risk, degree of risk tolerance or aversion and other risk characteristics largely influence the investment decision which is empirically observed by Deck et al. (2008). Lashgari (2000), Dennis and Mayhew (2002), Suk and Tully (2003), and Wurgler...