Managerial Finance: Volume 38 Issue 11

The effect of setting goals and emotions on asset allocation decisions

James A. Sundali, Gregory R. Stone, Federico L. Guerrero

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a controlled experiment to examine the effect of goal setting and affect framed feedback on repeated asset allocation investment decisions.

Banker's lending decision making: a psychological approach

Carl‐Christian Trönnberg, Sven Hemlin

The purpose of this paper is to analyze recent findings in the research on bankers' lending decision making, to merge relevant findings in psychology and economics and create a…

Are hedge funds guilty of manipulative short‐selling?

K. Stephen Haggard, (Grace) Qing Hao, Ying Jenny Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate short‐selling around private investment in public equity (PIPE) issuances, for evidence of manipulative short‐selling by hedge funds.

The impact of passive investing on corporate valuations

Eric Belasco, Michael Finke, David Nanigian

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of S&P 500 index fund money flow on the valuations of companies that are constituents of the index and those that are not.

Prediction of distress and identification of potential M&As targets in UK

Dionysios Polemis, Dimitrios Gounopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to identify financial characteristics that assess and predict corporate financial distress in publicly traded firms quoted in the London Stock…