Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of investors’ emotional state (mood) on their trading behaviour and performance. Design/methodology/approach – A sample from a representative survey of 328 Greek individual investors has been used to empirically test the validity...

Purpose Making rational and undistorted corporate investment decisions is critically important to organisations. “Scientific” investment appraisal can play a central role, particularly setting the hurdle rate. Empirical research reveals that actual rates generally exceed organisations’...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze long-term prior return patterns in stock returns for India. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology involves portfolio generation based on company characteristics and long-term prior return (24-60 months). The characteristic sorted...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the profitability of investment strategies based on past price changes and trading volumes. Design/methodology/approach – Data are employed from January 1998 to December 2011 for select emerging markets. Portfolios are formed on the basis of...

We build a model in which asset prices are expectationally driven and agents forecast future prices hinging on a combination of fundamental value, trend and inertia. The model has a unique steady state and we investigate its stability. In particular the amount of behavioural heterogeneity in the...

Understanding the decisional phenomenon in the modern capital markets is impossible nowadays without the psychological component of the investor’s attitude. A large number of the behavioural finance theories are based on a limited number of psychological biases, in order to build the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the optimal managerial compensation problem when shareholders are either naïvely optimistic or rational. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses applied game theory to derive the optimal CEO compensation package with over optimistic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically consolidate and analyze papers in behavioral finance in the past 20 years, and to provide an overall introduction to scholars and professionals in the industry who may be interested in behavioral finance in the future....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to survey retail investors to study the determinants of their investment behaviour and show that individual heterogeneity and financial factors such as gender, age, educational status, income, and investment levels determine their trading behaviour across...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether, and to what extent, specific personality traits drive investors’ trading behaviour. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates these assumptions in an innovative way by employing an integrated model and using structural equation...