Venezia, ItzhakUnknown
World Scientific (Singapore, 2020) (eng) English9789811229251UnknownUnknownINVESTMENTS--PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS;Unknown"Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach presents original papers exploring fresh ideas in behavioral finance. Its chapters span a wide range of topics in a distinct mix of traditional issues along with less conventional matters. This blend creates an optimal balance between chapters aiming at widening the scope of research in behavioral finance and those striving to refine the extant knowledge. Thus, along with traditional topics such as biases in pension decisions, analysts recommendation, gender differences in decisions and IPO's underpricing, the book also contains chapters on CEO and board members behavior, biased responses to regulation and regulatory reform, investors' attitudes towards corporate governance, cognitive biases in judicial decisions, the relations between behavioral finance and religion, new methods to calibrate the accuracy of forecasts, and the relations between behavioral finance and optimal contracting. Presenting original findings on a vast assortment of subjects, all in one venue, makes the book ideal as a reference book for researchers and practitioners interested in keeping up with the important developments in behavioral finance. The book could also serve as a handy guide for adapting insights from popular behavioral finance to some important underrepresented issues"--Publisher's website.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xxiii, 364 p..)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Part I. Behavioral Aspects of Policy Making
Chapter 1. Prediction Markets: Do They Predict the Polls or the Election Results? The Case of the Israeli Elections in April 2019
Chapter 2. Influential CEO and Board Behavior in Reaction to a Regulatory Reform: A Quasi-Natural Experiment
Chapter 3. Aiming for the Real-Estate Market But Hitting the Stock Market — An Event Study Analysis of Israeli Mortgage Reforms
Chapter 4. What You See Is What You Get But Do Investors Reward Good Corporate Governance When They See It?
Chapter 5. Are Courts Biased? The Anchoring Heuristic and Judicial Decisions in Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings
Part II. Investor Behavior and Methodological Novelties
Chapter 6. Psychological Aspects of Stock Price Drifts Following Analyst Recommendation Revisions
Chapter 7. The Critical Impact of Firms’ Market Value on Investor Behavior Following Pharmaceutical IPOs
Chapter 8. Behavioral Characteristics of IPO Underpricing
Chapter 9. Influence of Religion and Social Attitudes in Stock Market Participation
Chapter 10. Investment Beliefs and Portfolio Risk-Taking — A Comparison between Industry Professionals and Non-Professionals
Chapter 11. Boys Don’t Cry? The Emotional Effects of Poor Financial Savings Decisions among Males and Females
Chapter 12. Separating Accuracy from Forecast Certainty: A Modified Miscalibration Measure
Chapter 13. Optimal Contracts with Intra-Principal Conflicts and the Ubiquity of Earnings Management
Part III. New Directions for Pensions and Retirement Decisions
Chapter 14. Preferences for Annuities in Israel and Their Psychological Determinants
Chapter 15. Smokers’ Life Expectancy and Annuitization Decisions