BeFi meets DeFi: A behavioral finance approach to decentralized finance asset pricing

Donyetta Bennett, Erik Mekelburg and T.H. Williams

Research in International Business and Finance, 2023, vol. 65, issue C

Abstract: This systematic literature review summarizes the extant research in the Behavioral Finance (BeFi) and digital asset spaces to understand better the interactions of behavioral effects on the pricing of assets constructed, enabled, and exchanged in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) markets. We find that asset pricing in these rapidly evolving markets is better explained through BeFi than through traditional finance (TradFi) theory. Investor attention, sentiment, heuristics and biases, and network effects interact to form a highly volatile and dynamic market. We offer a deterministic research framework with propositions for future research. We further provide investors with a theoretically and empirically supported structure to better inform their decisions through an understanding of BeFi applications to DeFi.

Keywords: Decentralized finance; Behavioral finance; Biases; Heuristics; Cryptocurrencies; Investor sentiment; Investor attention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2023.101939

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