European Financial Management Symposium 2006: "Behavioral Finance"

The Symposium will focus on Behavioral Finance issues. We invite empirical and analytical (modeling/theory) papers that will help to better understand the workings of financial markets using behavioral explanations. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: Anomalies in financial markets; Anomalies in corporate finance; Trading Behavior of Institutions and Individuals; Herding behavior of investors in financial markets; Investors’ attitudes to risk and their investment decisions; Managerial behavior and agent-principal relations; Momentum and contrarian trading; Limits to Arbitrage and investors’ trading behavior; Issues on behavioral approaches to asset pricing; Dispersion of opinion, judgment and corporate financial decisions; Investors’ speculative behavior, bubbles and volatility; Investor behavior, pricing of derivatives, and trading in derivative markets.