This paper extends the economic growth model tested by Levine and Zervos (1998) by including a measure for capital allocation efficiency proxied by stock price informativeness. Using a sample of 59 countries, this study finds that stock price informativeness as measured by firm-specific return...

Human beings’ decision-making processes are generally influenced by two typical cognitive biases: representativeness heuristic bias and conservatism bias. Previous studies found that the two cognitive biases cause investors to misreact to past stock earnings. This paper argues that the two...

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some academics have questioned whether EMH is...