Purpose: The paper aims to provide the individual routes of the authors into behavioural finance in order to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides the background to the authors' personal route into behavioural finance. Findings: The paper highlights...

This paper investigates the consequences of shutdowns during the Corona crisis on the risk of bankruptcy for firms in Germany and United Kingdom. We use financial statements from the period 2014 to 2018 to predict how pervasive risk of bankruptcy becomes for micro, small, medium, and large firms...

We investigate the ability of company capital structures to be used as a predictor for abnormal returns. We carry out robustness tests to determine the predictive ability of debt ratios, controlling for size of company, price-to-earnings (PE) ratio, market-to-book value ratio (MTBV) and beta. We...

This paper examines the relation between abnormal stock returns and leverage. Expanding on Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition II, abnormal returns are estimated using the asset pricing models of Sharpe and Lintner (the traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model, CAPM), of Fama and French...

Changes in shipping freight rates predict stock market returns. In today's global world, where economies are linked through international trade, shipping freight rates carry information about economic activity which is reflected in stock returns. Our results are statistically and economically...

This paper studies the link between individual investors' portfolio diversification levels and various personal traits that proxy informational advantages and overconfidence. The analysis is based on objective data from the largest Turkish brokerage house tracking 59,951 individual investors'...

Our paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 on stock markets across G7 countries (the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) and sectors (Consumer Goods, Consumer Services, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Materials, Oil & Gas, Technology, Telecommunications and Utilities)...

The systematic risk of IPO's in the thinly traded Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) are estimated using Empirical Bayes Estimators (EBE). The sectors that the firms belong to, provide the priors. Comparisons are made with OLS estimators across different estimation and forecasting periods. Two...