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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"behavioural bias"”.
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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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THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL OVERCONFIDENCE AND INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON BIDDERS’ ABNORMAL RETURNS
… takeover gains for UK bidding firms and offer a behavioural approach to empirical analysis. The main issues and key findings of the three empirical chapters are summarised as follows. Chapter 3 empirically investigates the hubris hypothesis for corporate takeovers (Roll (1986)). This thesis …
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Prospect Theory in the Housing Market
Loss aversion, a behavioural bias on people’s asymmetric attitudes towards losses and gains, is a core concept in prospect theory. Similar to behavioural sciences in general, loss aversion has been widely applied in various research areas. However, evidence of this concept in residential real …
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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 …