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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Behavioural Biases"”.
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Adoption of innovations: modelling the interplay of behavioural biases, incentives and network structure
… by adopters compared to others' choices due to behavioural considerations resulting from social interactions such as social comparisons. To study these effects fully, existing analytical methodologies, such as classic game theory or dynamic programming used in the field, prove to be limiting. …
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Evolutionary Dynamics in Stock Market: An Empirical Investigation for Chinese-A share Markets
… of evolutionary finance theories and behavioural biases in explaining stock price dynamics in the Chinese A-share markets. We extend the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which states that if markets are efficient, future prices cannot be forecast, by incorporating evolutionary …
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Invest like a woman: an analysis of investment performance in South Africa based on gender
The rise in popularity of behavioural finance has illustrated how investors do not always act and invest rationally, and as such do not always maximise their utility. Researchers in the field of behavioural finance have found that certain behavioural biases that exist in humans can explain these …
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She's built for it: differential investment performance in South Africa based on gender
Research in behavioural finance has shown that individuals do not always behave rationally. As a result of this they do not make investment decisions in such a way as to maximise their expect- ed utility. Certain behavioural biases have been found to explain this behaviour. Furthermore, differences …
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Bounded Rationality in Real Estate Investment Decisions
… again and again, that investors suffer from behavioural biases. They make cognitive errors by processing the available information in a selective and biased manner and rely on additional emotional heuristics to take mental shortcuts. Instead of making optimal decisions, they seek satisfactory …
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The financial planning journey: a grounded theory towards bias mitigation
Behavioural finance suggests that individuals behave in a less than optimal manner. The decision-making of investors is subject to behavioural biases, which represent systematic deviations from logic and rationality. Research at the intersection of behavioural finance and financial planning has the …
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Three essays in behavioural finance: An examination into non- Bayesian Investment behaviour
Behavioural Finance relaxes the neoclassical assumption that investors consistently apply Bayes Rule when updating their expectations, and identifies the behavioural attributes that affect asset prices. This thesis extends this literature by examining deviations from the Bayesian model that arise …
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Overconfidence and real estate research
… volume and complexity. A sound understanding of behavioural biases in this sector benefits all stakeholders, such as investors, regulators, and local residents. I focus on one of the most robust behavioural anomalies in business and finance research: overconfidence. Overconfidence significantly …
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An analysis of judgemental bias in housing choice
… insights of the economic theory of choice - from behavioural economics in particular - to examine housing choice from a new perspective. It considers the potential for estate agents, knowingly or otherwise, to exploit behavioural biases in decision making to influence preference and, ultimately, …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Rejection and Inclusion in Major Depressive Disorder
… 2 provided an exploration of the systemic behavioural biases in in those with depression compared to mentally healthy individuals using a range of social, affective and process measures implemented across the remaining chapters. Then followed a behavioural and neural investigation into …
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The value of financial advice : an analysis of the investment performance of advised and non-advised individual investors
… through the advice that they offer investors. Behavioural finance has demonstrated that individual investors do not always behave in a rational manner, unlike financial advisors who seem not be prone to the behavioural biases that individuals experience when investment decisions are made. …
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A critical assessment of what influences and biases the financial decision-making behaviour of the millennial investor.
… question: What are the key factors, drivers and biases that influence the confidence of financial decision-making behaviour of the millennial investor? The research aim was to identify key factors that influence financial decision-making of millennials. Emerging research on human decision-making …
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Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in England from randomly sampled prevalence surveys
… it is often subject to reporting and behavioural biases, reducing its robustness. The CIS (Coronavirus Infection Survey) was a large-scale, longitudinal prevalence survey, with participants recruited randomly from the general population, thereby avoiding these issues. In this thesis, I …
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Understanding the role of emotion, reward and food preference on the perception of sweet-tasting food using a novel classification task
Research demonstrates that humans tend to have behavioural biases toward calorie (kcal)-dense foods, particularly those that are sweet, although cognitive biases toward these foods are less well established. With major public health organisations highlighting the rising concerns surrounding …
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Playing with agency: how player agency affects game retention
… systems is compared to known phenomena from behavioural psychology. However, games are both complex interactive systems and usable products, and not truly scientific in their analyses; while data can verify the outcome of a change or ‘a/b’ test, it’s more difficult to prove causation than in …
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Predictable Fluctuations in the Cross-Section and Time-Series of Asset Prices
… to firm-specific information such that these behavioural biases provide predictable variations in stock returns as well as in return variances over the short-term. Furthermore, this evidence is independent of arbitrage activities in the market. Our results have practical implications for …
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Examining Relationships between Online Financial Message Board Interactions and Trading Activity of Securities Listed on the AIM Submarket of the London Stock Exchange
… for social networks to amplify the effects of behavioural biases (Zhang, 2014; Russ, 2007). However, previous studies on the informational content of message board postings, and the power of online communications in predicting abnormal returns and trading volumes produce conflicting results …
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The Mechanisms and Consequences of Cerebral Lateralization
… what mechanisms gave rise to the lateralized biases in processing function? Second, what are the consequences of functional asymmetry of cognitive processing in the human brain on our everyday behaviour? Examining the mechanisms that give rise to cerebral lateralization, Experiments 1 and 2 …
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Intermediated securities holding infrastructure an avant - garde system jeopardised by the usual suspects
… disciplines, such as information asymmetry, behavioural biases, capture theory, laissez-fare and paternalistic ideologies of policymaking and performativity to name a few. As a result we offer a comprehensive, balanced, strong, contemporary, multidisciplinary and promising framework for …
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Investment manager trading behaviour and fund performance
… manager trading behaviour to ascertain whether behavioural biases are present in the Australian investment management industry. In particular, this thesis examines whether these biases are detrimental to fund performance and market efficiency, and whether there is a need for regulatory review …