This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...

Using the upper price limit-hitting events, in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China, as the basis for comparison, we find that limit-hitting stocks in the top-ten ranking list of daily returns attract investors' attention, and bring about significant abnormal return in excess of those...

This paper studies the differences in stock market reaction to the same kind of disease-related news by analyzing abnormal returns of global stock markets during Public Health Risk Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) announcements. Drawing the data from 26 stock market indices over the...

We conducted experiments to elicit risk attitudes and time preferences for 161 participants up to the age of 84 years old. These are compared to their self-reported behavior in daily financial matters. The results show that individual differences in financial behavior are significant in...

We argue that after an increase in domestic ambiguity, countries with higher ambiguity aversion should see a larger fall in foreign bias than countries with lower ambiguity aversion. We empirically test this hypothesis using cross-border equity holdings from 22 developed and emerging countries...