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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"behavioural finance"”.
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Essays on Behavioural Finance and Sports Economics
We examined two fields within the behavioural finance framework as well as sports economics. We explored sports clubs’ wages and other team characteristics to explain managerial behaviour with regard to players’ playing time. Additionally, we conjectured that playing at home could affect team …
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Foreign direct investment – a behavioural finance approach
… foreign direct investments (FDI) by applying two behavioural finance concepts, home bias and herding, to the analysis of FDI flows. I contribute to the literature by empirically testing for home bias and herding in an FDI context using a very broad panel dataset. I also contribute by examining the …
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Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Behavioural Finance
This thesis comprises three chapters. In the first, Digesting the Profitability and Investment Premia: Evidence from the Short-selling Activity', we highlight the different effects of short-selling activity on the profitability and investment premia. We find that the profitability premium …
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Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Behavioural Finance
This thesis comprises three chapters. In the first, Digesting the Profitability and Investment Premia: Evidence from the Short-selling Activity', we highlight the different effects of short-selling activity on the profitability and investment premia. We find that the profitability premium …
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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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An exploratory study of behavioural finance insights in the Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise creditworthiness assessment process
Financial institutions are often reluctant to lend to smaller entrepreneurs due to perceived information asymmetry and lack of available collateral. At the nascent and new entrepreneurial levels, it is generally more difficult for loan applicants to provide the information required to secure the …
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Optimal Plan Design and Dynamic Asset Allocation of Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Lessons from Behavioural Finance and Non-expected Utility Theories
… study is provided by the recent literature on behavioural finance and intertemporal life-cycle investment theory. In this thesis two alternative utility forms are considered: loss aversion and Epstein-Zin recursive utility. We develop a dynamic-programming-based numerical model with uninsurable …
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Three essays on rationality, intentionality and economic agency
… different field in economics; critical realism, behavioural finance and mainstream microeconomics. The first essay, which looks at the critical realist conception of the human actor in Tony Lawson 's Economics and Reality, argues that Lawson leaves undeveloped the notion of tacit knowledge, …
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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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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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The Impact of Loss Aversion and Market Sentiment on Implied Volatility Skews.
… however, articles which link option pricing to behavioural finance are becoming increasingly popular. More specifically implied volatility skews, representing a pricing anomaly with regards to the theoretical, neoclassical assumptions of most option pricing models, are in the center of the …
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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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Holistic Approach to the Factors Affecting Individual Investor’s Decision Making in the GCC Markets: Evidence from Oman and Saudi Arabia
Behavioural finance studies have documented that investors are subject to psychological factors (cognitive and emotional) and demographic factors (internal), and external factors that make their financial decisions less than fully rational. However, most of these studies have concentrated on …
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Determining whether active investment, using a combination of investment styles, out-performs passive investment
… style, market-based style and behavioural-finance-based style in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange during the period from 1984 to 2014. The four-dimension optimisation exercise based on the combination-based style was done in the in-sampling period and the result was tested in the …
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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
… in investing is an expanding research area in Behavioural Finance. Research has shown that males and females behave differently in many of their decision-making processes, but this dissertation will focus mainly on the differences in investing behaviours. Because males are generally …
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Effect of market anomalies on expected returns on the JSE: A cross-sector analysis
The efficient market hypothesis and behavioural finance have been the cause of much debate for decades, with one theory advocating market efficiency and the other opposing it. The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) assumes that investors always act rationally and stock prices adjust rapidly to new …
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Three Essays on Sustainable Finance and Behavioral Insights: Exploring Sustainability, Inclusion, and Decision-Making Dynamics
… critical intersections between sustainable finance, financial inclusion, and executive behavioural influences on corporate decision-making. The first paper investigates the role of energy efficiency in the U.S. residential real estate market, highlighting how climate-conscious beliefs drive …
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How Does Trust Impact Sovereign Credit Default Swap Spreads?
… we seek to further the field of sovereign behavioural finance. This study suggests that there are three key effects in SCDS markets relating to trust. The first is the Economic Development Effect, where countries with higher GDP per capita have more favourably priced SCDS due to their …
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How Does Trust Impact Sovereign Credit Default Swap Spreads?
… we seek to further the field of sovereign behavioural finance. This study suggests that there are three key effects in SCDS markets relating to trust. The first is the Economic Development Effect, where countries with higher GDP per capita have more favourably priced SCDS due to their …
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The Role of Financial Management in Sustaining Competitive Advantage in Medical Devices Distributing Companies: The Case of Jordan
… disciplines—traditional, strategic, and behavioural—and explores two competitive strategies: imitation and innovation. Four research questions guide the study, addressing the current role of financial management, operationalisation factors, organisational factors, and transformation …
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