This paper proposes that millennials' investing behavior is driven by generational biases-investment-related biases that millennials share. The results of an online survey of 516 millennial investors revealed that generational biases-fear of missing out, socially responsible investing,...

Behavioral theories suggest that overconfident investors overestimate the quality of their information and underestimate risk. They have a high demand for risky assets and require a lower risk premium, causing asset prices to rise and leading to overvaluation. We investigate how overconfidence...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great turbulence in global financial markets. The first goal of this conceptual paper is to explore whether managers of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange are susceptible to selected behavioral biases related to irrational risk preferences. We also...

The traditional finance theory assumed that investors are cogent while making an investment decision, but the investment theories found a new direction after the inception of behavior finance theories. The role of psychology is significant in investment decisions, and many external and internal...

Present bias is an important term in behavioral finance that is derived from the concept of self-control. Empirical research finds that present bias is associated with undesirable spending, borrowing, and saving behavior. Unlike previous research that focuses on one domain of financial behavior,...

Collateral requirements play an important role in credit markets. This paper shows that the endowment effect--the phenomenon where owing a good increases one's valuation of it--inhibits demand for loans which use a borrower's existing assets as collateral. Using a field experiment in Kenya, we...

The motivation value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing in beliefs on one's own productivity. This relationship also holds for overconfident individuals who have exaggerated productivity beliefs (motivation value of overconfidence). We present first empirical...

The motivation value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing in beliefs on one's own productivity. This relationship also holds for overconfident individuals who have exaggerated productivity beliefs (motivation value of overconfidence). We present first empirical...

Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...

This paper develops an agent-based model of learning process that systematically organizes actual choice behavior along the path to equilibrium. The model relies on expected utility maximization to provide directions for economic agents to make choices at the margin toward their ends in adaptive...