Banking sector and behavioral finance

Money, Banking, and Finance

Centre for Banking and Finance

This paper examines the effectiveness of strategic planning in commercial banks and how management styles influence (or reflect influences) on diversification decisions within bank markets. The research is based on and further develops a framework proposed by Goold and Campbell (1987) and Goold et al. (1994) by testing the strategic response of banks to changes in their growth opportunities. Ch...

Behavioral Finance Models and Behavioral Biases in Stock Price Forecasting

Stock market is affected by news and information. If the stock market is not efficient, the reaction of stock price to news and information will place the stock market in overreaction and under-reaction states. Many models have been already presented by using different tools and techniques to forecast the stock market behavior. In this study, the reaction of stock price in the stock market was ...

Measuring banking sector outreach

• A well developed financial system is necessary for economic development and poverty alleviation (Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine 2004 and Honohan 2004a). The empirical relationship between finance and growth is well established in theoretical literature, as surveyed by Levine (2005). Financial market imperfections are particularly binding on poor or small entrepreneurs lacking collateral, cred...

Measuring banking sector development

Conventional measures of banking sector The traditional indicators utilized for assessing the size, depth and development of a country’s banking (financial) sector are: • The ratio of M2 to GDP • The ratio of private credit to GDP. In particular, both these measures have been used to show the causal effects of financial development on economic growth. However, both measures have some limitation...