this research intends to investigate the relationship between financial information transparency and investor behavior in tse, in order to provide safety trade and improve performance of the financial market in iran. in last decade transparency of the financial market has been known as one of the most effective variables in determining investor strategy. this study examines perception of transp...

Many institutional and individual investors have an asset allocation policy that calls for investing a specified percentage of the total value of a portfolio in each of several asset classes. To conform with such a policy as market values change requires selling assets that performed relatively well and buying those that performed relatively poorly. Such a strategy is clearly contrarian and can...

This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

Is it possible to obtain an objective and quantifiable measure of risk backed up by choices made by some specific groups of rational investors? To answer this question, in this paper we establish some behavior foundations for various types of VaR models, including VaR and conditional-VaR, as measures of downside risk. Though supported to some extent with unanimous choices by some specific group...

This paper presents an equilibrium model of the term structure of interest rates when investors have heterogeneous preferences. The basic model considers a pure exchange economy of two classes of investors with different (but constant) relative risk-aversion and gives closed-form solutions to bond prices. We sue the model to examine the effect of preference heterogeneity on the behavior of bond...

This paper presents a model of portfolio choice and stock trading volume with lossaverse investors. The demand function for risky assets is discontinuous and non-monotonic: as wealth rises beyond a threshold investors follow a generalized portfolio insurance strategy. This behavior is consistent with the evidence in favor of the disposition effect. In addition, loss-averse investors will not ho...