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Investor behaviour and contagion
Quantitative Finance, 2014This paper examines two open questions in international finance. First, what is the relative importance of different linkages in causing global financial crises? The second question concerns whether or not investor behaviour affects contagion. I use a two-market agent-based model that incorporates insights from behavioural finance to answer these open ...
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Does sentiment determine investor trading behaviour?
Applied Economics Letters, 2020Sentiment is a determinant of investors’ trading decisions and behaviours. After a sentiment shock, investors’ net positions change differently across investor types.
Karam Kim, Doojin Ryu
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Investor Psycology and Behavioural Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019Behavioural finance theories and models argue that the definition of stock prices is influenced by psychological, cognitive and emotional factors of investors. The presence of investors, who do not act rationally on the stock market, and the fact that psychological and emotional factors are effective in the decision-making process distract the stock ...
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Investigating Overconfidence in Investor Behaviour
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent financial investors are overconfident in financial markets. More importantly, I explored how this psychological attribute may have any bearing on investment performance. The main question is how ans why overconfidence affect investment performance, if at all if it does.
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Investors’ Behaviour: Survey Findings
2014This chapter is intended to examine investors’ attitudes towards mutual funds. These empirical data results will be helpful for mutual fund organizers to decide the nature and type of schemes to be offered to prospective investors. The chapter analyses investors’ opinions on various issues such as investment purpose, returns from mutual funds ...
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Investor's Socio-Economic Behaviour Analysis
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012Socio-economic behaviour analysis is a study made on socio-economic parameters like age, gender and income groups and also some attract the investor towards that particular investment. This analysis describes why an investor will opt a particular investment and the motive behind the investment and other objectives of investment.
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Understanding Investor Behaviour
2017This chapter introduces the behavioural underpinnings of decision-making under risk, reviewing the literature from cognitive psychology and economics in order to provide a more empirically founded picture of the investor’s mind. The chapter addresses the two stages of decision-making—information collection and processing, and the actual process of ...
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Mean‐Variance Preferences and Investor Behaviour
The Economic Journal, 2001We study the comparative statics implications of mean-variance preferences for optimal portfolios. Specifically, we show that all risk-averse mean-variance investors raise their investment in a risky asset in response to a change in that asset's return distribution if and only if the change lowers both the mean and standard deviation of the return by ...
Michael B. Ormiston, Edward E. Schlee
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Investors' trading activity: a behavioural perspective
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, 2010This paper discusses whether psychological biases (overconfidence and mood), and social intelligence (in the form of self-monitoring) influence individual investors' decision making and their trading behaviour (trading frequency, volume and performance).
Dimitrios Kourtidis +2 more
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Behavioural Biases in Investor Decisions
2016Ex post examination of investor behaviour and tests of market prices against theoretical predictions reveal numerous anomalies and puzzles. Despite the large catalogue, most biases can be attributed to a few factors: Simplification of the decision process Reliance on past values Status quo bias that avoids excessive reaction ...
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