Advances in Behavioral Finance
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2018) | Viewed by 9028
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Behavioral finance explains why and how financial markets might be inefficient. Bounded rationality, loss aversion, overconfidence, herding behavior and other forms of biases are some of the issues that behavioral finance deals with. According to Shefrin (2001), behavior finance is the study of how psychology affects financial decision making process and financial markets. Behavioral finance includes more than three decades of intensive research providing useful information of the markets functioning and of investors investment behavior. In recent years, communications and information have become available worldwide in seconds speed. This influences both the behavior and the perception of the agents/investors in a different way that used to be in previous years.
This Special Issue is dedicated in papers focusing on the functioning of the financial markets and of the economy through the lens of behavioral finance. New methods and new research questions examining possible deviations from rational behavior are highly encouraged. It is also of highly interest papers that take into account the impact of the increased information through textual and sentiment analysis on the investment behavior and on the financial markets in general.
Dr. Ioannis C. PragidisGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Behavioral Finance
- Textual analysis
- Sentiment analysis
- Financial markets
- Commodities, stock market prediction
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