Behavioral Finance:A Novel Approach

Edited by Itzhak Venezia

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Abstract: Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach

Keywords: Analysts Recommendations; Behavioral Biases; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Finance; Board of Directors; Compensation; Compensation Committee; Control; Coronavirus; Corporate Governance; COVID-19; Decision Making; Disposition Effect; Earnings Management; Elections; Emotions; Financial Crises; Financial Market Anomalies; Financial Markets; Forecast-Accuracy; Gender Differences; Heuristics; Interval Forecasting; Investment; Investor Horizon; Investors' Beliefs; IPO Under-Pricing; Life Expectancy; Myopia; Overconfidence; Pensions Industry; Policy Reforms; Polls; Portfolio Risk; Prediction Markets; Regulation; Stock Price Drifts; Time Preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G3 G30 G4 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9789811229244
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Prediction Markets: Do They Predict the Polls or the Election Results? The Case of the Israeli Elections in April 2019 , pp 3-17

Rachel Calipha and Itzhak Venezia

Ch 2 Influential CEO and Board Behavior in Reaction to a Regulatory Reform: A Quasi-Natural Experiment , pp 19-49

Brian McTier and Shlomith D. Zuta

Ch 3 Aiming for the Real-Estate Market But Hitting the Stock Market — An Event Study Analysis of Israeli Mortgage Reforms , pp 51-71

Yaron Lahav, Sara Arbel and Aliza Mizrahi

Ch 4 What You See Is What You Get But Do Investors Reward Good Corporate Governance When They See It? , pp 73-98

Alberto Plazzi, Walter Torous and Umit Yilmaz

Ch 5 Are Courts Biased? The Anchoring Heuristic and Judicial Decisions in Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings , pp 99-128

Yevgeny Mugerman, Neta Nadiv and Moran Ofir

Ch 6 Psychological Aspects of Stock Price Drifts Following Analyst Recommendation Revisions , pp 131-154

Andrey Kudryavtsev

Ch 7 The Critical Impact of Firms’ Market Value on Investor Behavior Following Pharmaceutical IPOs , pp 155-177

Smadar Siev and Tiran Rothman

Ch 8 Behavioral Characteristics of IPO Underpricing , pp 179-207

Allen Michel, Jacob Oded and Israel Shaked

Ch 9 Influence of Religion and Social Attitudes in Stock Market Participation , pp 209-237

Yang Zhou, Jinwen Yu and Zhiping Zhou

Ch 10 Investment Beliefs and Portfolio Risk-Taking — A Comparison between Industry Professionals and Non-Professionals , pp 239-266

Magnus Jansson, Sven Hemlin, Doron Sonsino and Carl-Christian Trönnberg

Ch 11 Boys Don’t Cry? The Emotional Effects of Poor Financial Savings Decisions among Males and Females , pp 267-282

Erez Yaakobi and Ido Kallir

Ch 12 Separating Accuracy from Forecast Certainty: A Modified Miscalibration Measure , pp 283-301

Doron Sonsino, Yaron Lahav and Amir Levkowitz

Ch 13 Optimal Contracts with Intra-Principal Conflicts and the Ubiquity of Earnings Management , pp 303-322

N. K. Chidambaran, Bharat Sarath and Lingyi Zheng

Ch 14 Preferences for Annuities in Israel and Their Psychological Determinants , pp 325-348

Omer Selivansky, David Leiser and Avia Spivak

Ch 15 Smokers’ Life Expectancy and Annuitization Decisions , pp 349-364

Abigail Hurwitz and Orly Sade

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