Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have instead not been investigated as...

This study examines the causality relationship between information asymmetry and herding behavior by considering the factors of regret and cognitive dissonance. The moderated-moderation model assigns regret as the first-order moderator and cognitive dissonance as the second-order moderator. The...

This paper examines the effects of superstitious psychology on investors’ decision making in the context of Mercury retrograde, a special astronomical phenomenon meaning “everything going wrong”. Using natural experiments in the Chinese stock market, we find that stock prices fall...

Smartphone games are played on smartphones, such as smartphones or feature phones; personal digital assistants; tablets that can handle gaming consoles; and portable media players with internet connectivity. People are becoming addicted to smartphone games. Few researches have examined such...

This article examines the impact of overconfidence, optimism, risk aversion, mimicry and intuition biases on the investment decisions of Moroccan SMEs managers. The study was based on a sample of 133 SMEs managers, who were randomly selected to ensure the representativeness of the results....