Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 15 Issue 4

Feedback trading: a review of theory and empirical evidence

Fotini Economou, Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Bartosz Gebka, Vasileios Kallinterakis

The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively review a large and heterogeneous body of academic literature on investors' feedback trading, one of the most popular trading…

Infectious disease (COVID-19)-related uncertainty and the safe-haven features of bonds markets

Shoaib Ali, Imran Yousaf, Zaghum Umar

This study aims to examine the hedge, diversifier and safe-haven properties of bonds against infectious disease-related equity market volatility (IDEMV), like COVID-19.

Credit record overconfidence and alternative financial service use

Christi R. Wann, Beverly K. Brockman, Christopher M. Brockman

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of credit record overconfidence on the use of alternative financial services (AFSs).

Bearish conditions and volatility persistence during COVID-19 can microchip stocks weather the storm?

Mutaju Isaack Marobhe, Pastory Dickson

The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of panic and hysteria news on the volatility of microchip stocks during Covid-19.

Buy together, but recycle alone: sentiment-driven herding behavior in oceanic dry bulk shipping

Konstantinos D. Melas, Nektarios A. Michail

The authors employ the vessels that comprise the dry bulk segment of the maritime industry and examine how market sentiment affects the herding behavior of shipping investors in a…

A volatile mind? Experimental evidence on dealers' biases and market volatility

Smita Roy Trivedi

The study tests the hypothesis that following the arrival of news in the forex market, the trader/dealers demonstrate two kinds of biases which makes markets volatile: “Recurrence…

Influence of bull and bear market phase on financial risk tolerance of urban individual investors in an emerging economy

Neha Arora, Brijesh K. Mishra

This study aims to analyze how risk tolerance is influenced by bull and bear market phases, age and professional work experience (PWE) of investors in emerging economies. The…

The effect of annual reports tone complexity on firms' dividend policy: evidence from the United States

Harit Satt, George Iatridis

This paper investigates the impact of annual reports complexity (associated with tone complexity) on dividend policy and value of dividend policy.