In this paper, we examine the impact of investors' attention to COVID-19 on stock market returns and the moderating effect of national culture on this relationship. Using daily data from 34 countries over the period 23 January to 12 June 2020, and measuring investors' attention with the Google...

Purpose - The current study aims to investigate the impacts of two behavioral biases, namely, loss aversion and overconfidence on the performance of US companies. First, the impact of loss aversion on the economic performance of companies was assessed. Second, the impact of overconfidence on...

The goal of the research is to investigate if the application of the risk control to the momentum strategy is a proof that the investor has asymmetric volatility bias that led a behavioural tendency to associate the volatility only as a risk factor, without consider potential upside effect of...

Lotteries are a curious phenomenon in financial markets, as they seem to contradict traditional utility models that predict rational behavior under uncertainty. Despite this, lotteries continue to attract the interest of many investors who knowingly or unknowingly trade their expectations of...