Modern Portfolio Theory, standard asset pricing models and the concept of rational decision makers in efficient markets have major limitations as systems for modeling investor behavior and prices of financial assets. Financial market participants are not a uniform group of rational investors....

The research is comprised of empirical findings in making a clear perceptive of the sagacity of investors, stock returns, and stock market efficiency behavior in the theoretical frame of behavioral finance pattern. The analyses employed a long extent of Pakistan stock market Returns data from...

It is a universally accepted principle that risk and return of investing are commensurate. However, people give more importance to return and risk takes a back seat. This study is an attempt to understand the perceptions of 120 investors in Gandhinagar region towards risk and return of investing...

We study the relationship between stock market return expectations and risk aversion of individuals and test whether the joint effects arising from the interaction of these two variables affect investment decisions. Using data from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey, we find that risk...