Investor Behavioral Finance: Examining Its Applicability on Egyptian Investors

Behavioral finance: Its history and its future

Identifying and categorizing of effective factors on individual investors behavior in Tehran’s stock market (Behavioral finance perspective)

Investors behavior is one of the most important discussion of the financial science in the financial market. Individual investors consider various factors when they buy and sell securities and show different behavior (Rational, Herding, Reaction and Heuristic). The main purpose of this research is to identify and categorize factors which impact individual investors behavior that are known as be...

Role of Behavioral Finance in Financial Market: An Exploration of Personalities of Retail Investors

In the epoch of 21st century financial decision making has changed its parameters in all aspects. Earlier, they were only based on financial indicators and people invest blindly by making them as a basis of their investment. But, now days in addition to financial indicators, non-financial indicators also play an imperative role in financial decision making. This paper provides an overview of th...

Behavioral biases and investor performance

Research indicates that individual investors trade excessively and underperform the market indices, Barber and Odean (2000). The purpose of this paper is to help explain which behavioral biases, if any, can explain this result using a simulation approach. Results indicate that putting too much weight on the current environment, anchoring, is the largest factor in explaining individual investor ...

Investors as Capabilities: Intra-Investor Complementarities and Startup Performance

The contribution of investors to the performance of their portfolio companies within the VC industry has been researched thoroughly. A novel aspect of this paper is that it examines the impact of a syndicated investment using two different measures: (a) the total number of investors; and (b) the total number of different investor types. Using a novel dataset and while controlling for the endoge...