Using a unique sample constructed by 600 investors' responses to a structured questionnaire, we investigate the impact of behavioral biases on the investors' investment decision making in the Pakistani equity market, as well as the roles that market anomalies and financial literacy play in the...

Purpose: People often face constraints such as a lack of time or information in taking decisions, which leads them to use heuristics. In these situations, fast and frugal rules may be useful for making adaptive decisions with fewer resources, even if it leads to suboptimal choices. When applied...

This paper examines the impact of financial literacy and financial inclusion on stock market participation in Ghana. It employs a sample of 1,966 respondents across the 10 regions of Ghana for the year 2018. We employ biprobit models to estimate the influence of financial literacy on financial...