The need to he customer-focused to the highly changing marketing environment has never been more important for financial services institutions. However, under the present circumstances, where customers are becoming more demanding and increasingly mobile between competing financial providers, being customer-oriented is not enough. Financial services companies, and more specifically, their contac...

The use of financial incentives to change health-related behaviour is often opposed by members of the public. We investigated whether the acceptability of incentives is influenced by their effectiveness, the form the incentive takes, and the particular behaviour targeted. We conducted discrete choice experiments, in 2010 with two samples (n = 81 and n = 101) from a self-selected online panel, a...

We compare the behaviour of students and professional traders from an influential German bank in an experiment involving financial options. The arbitrage free option price is independent of the probability distribution of the underlying asset. The experimental data uncover a probability dependent option valuation of the students, however, they learn to exploit more arbitrage as they gain experi...

India's IT sector significantly contributes to the country's GDP. Savings and investments are essential for accelerating economic growth elevating India. The goal of this study is investigate saving opportunities, investing behaviour, degree financial literacy among professionals. professionals have a distinct perspective when they decide invest in certain avenue want their money be invested mo...

This article looks back over the different dimensions of financial literacy: theoretical, methodological, empirical and political. The theoretical foundations notion literacy are presented with reference to recent contributions by psychological or behavioural economics: “household finance” refers concept based on dead-ends standard saver theory. raises fundamental question as how measure evalua...

This article proposes a test to determine if two price series that each contain an explosive autoregressive regime consistent with the presence of bubble are related in sense linear combination them is integrated order zero. We refer such phenomenon as ‘co-explosive behaviour’, and propose based on stationarity testing framework. The allows episode one lead (or lag) other by number time periods...