Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 15 Issue 5

Herding behaviour in the Islamic bank market: evidence from the Gulf region

Imran Yousaf, Jassem Alokla

This study examines herding in Islamic bank equity markets under various market conditions (up/down, high/low trading and high/low volatility) and during events such as…

An experimental investigation of the “follow own signal” decision rule under increased information uncertainty

Ming Tsang, Adam Stivers

This study aims to examine individuals' tendency to strictly follow their own signal while ignoring predecessors' decisions when making decisions under varying degrees of…

Forecasting foreign exchange rates as group experiment: actuality bias and fact-convergence effect within wisdom of crowds

Haruo H. Horaguchi

This article examines the accuracy and bias inherent in the wisdom of crowd effect. The purpose is to clarify what kind of bias crowds have when they make predictions. In the…

Firm-specific sentiment and individual option's implied volatility slope

Bei Chen, Quan Gan

Previous literature shows that market sentiment and the steepness of index option's implied volatility slope have a negative relation. This paper investigates the relation between…

Trading behavior of Swedish retirement investors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Johannes Hagen, Amedeus Malisa, Thomas Post

How did investors in the Swedish Premium Pension System (PPS) react to the stock market shock ignited by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Time-varying herding spillover for emerging countries: evidence from BRIC countries and Turkey

Muhammad Yasir, A. Özlem Önder

This study aims to investigate herding spillover in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries and Turkey under different regimes by using a time-varying approach.

The impact of anchoring bias on investment decision-making: evidence from Ghana

Sally Peaches Owusu, Esther Laryea

The objective of this paper is to explore how anchoring affects the dynamics of investor decision-making with regard to mutual funds and how this bias differs amongst gender and…

Feedback trading in global stock markets under uncertainty of COVID-19

Esra Alp Coşkun

Although some research has been carried out on feedback trading in different asset classes, there have been few empirical investigations that consider both major and emerging…