In my work advising individuals on their investment strategies, I get somewhat of a front-row seat when it comes to observing behavioral investing in action. More than occasionally, I find myself explaining to a client why his or her desired course of action is likely to do more harm than good. But knowledge of market conditions and historical risk/return dynamics is hardly the sole determinant...

We review theory and evidence relating to herd behavior, payo and reputational interactions, social learning, and informational cascades in capital markets. We o er a simple taxonomy of e ects, and evaluate how alternative theories may help explain evidence on the behavior of investors, rms, and analysts. We consider both incentives for parties to engage in herding or cascading, and the incenti...

having knowledge about behavioral biases, investors are able to evaluate their decision process with more awareness and they can react much better when facing such biases, as a result decisions deviation will be minimized. in this study, 36 different behavioral biases have been categorized into 5 different groups to normalize the effective behavioral biases in the process of decision making of ...

Economic sociologists and white-collar criminologists offer competing predictions about the outcomes of socially embedded transactions. Economic sociologists stress the protective and beneficial role of social networks. Their evidence shows that social ties improve transaction outcomes. White-collar criminologists focus on the harmful and exploitative role of social networks. Their evidence sho...

The main purpose of this paper is to review existing relevant pieces literature on the behavior investors toward investment in sharia stocks and bring into focus factors that affect investors’ decision-making regarding stocks. descriptive exploratory based secondary data sourced from trusted e-journals, research databases, e-magazines. influence decisions can be complex may vary one individual ...