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Drought Readiness and Anxiety of new and experienced Indian Farmers

Raval, Vishvesh; Vyas, Khyati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Indian Farmers continue to suffer regularly from Droughts, as a frequent natural disaster and has profound effect individually and collectively. The mental health effects of natural disaster are well known however anxiety and readiness of likely Drought is less well understood. However, in...

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Corporate Governance as Moral Psychology

Palmiter, Alan R. - 2017

: corporate governance is best seen not as a subset of economics or even law, but instead as a subset of moral psychology. Recent … research in the nascent field of moral psychology suggests that we humans are not rational beings, particularly when we act in … veneer of rationality, to reassure ourselves of our own moral integrity and to signal our moral values to like-minded others …

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Acquisition Risk and Psychology

Cai, Ye - 2016

This paper investigates how the combination of preferences and biases impact the risk-value profile of acquiring firms. We find strong evidence that prior losses impact acquisition risk as firms with negative prior returns are more prone to become acquirers and make value destructive...

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The Biological Psychological Socionomic Continuum

Mir, Muhammad Hanaf - 2022

Neoclassical Economics and the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) along with all its types have been a go to for investors since decades but why do almost all speculators tend to lose money while making their financial decisions? Stock market is the most vulnerable place towards uncertainty and...

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Psychological Bias as a Driver of Financial Regulation

Hirshleifer, David A. - 2023

I propose here the psychological attraction theory of financial regulation—that regulation is the result of psychological biases on the part of political participants—voters, politicians, bureaucrats, and media commentators; and of regulatory ideologies that exploit these biases. Some key...

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Does Human Psychology Drive Financial Markets? Evidence from International Markets

Dhaoui, Abderrazak; Khraief, Naceur - In: International Journal of Economics and Empirical … 2 (2014) 3, pp. 100-108

rationality losses of significance and cannot explain the evolution of trading. The economy is, however, driven by behavioral …

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Out of the Limelight But in Play : Trading and Liquidity of Media and Off-Media Stocks

Fang, Lily Hua - 2017

Using hand-collected TV programming data and intra-day trading data from China, we compare the trading, liquidity, and returns of on-show and off-show stocks in the same sector. Our difference-in-difference analysis reveals that post-show, off-show stocks experience significant improvements in...

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Rational or Irrational? A Comprehensive Studies on Stock Market Crashes

Ma, Tai - 2017

This study attempts to illustrate the contributing factors for different patterns of crashes. In addition to the fundamental macro-economic factors, this paper argues that the existence of herding behavior as well as the level of investor attention are also important factors affecting the...

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Rationalizing Investors Choice

Bernard, Carole - 2015

Assuming that agents' preferences satisfy first-order stochastic dominance, we show how the Expected Utility paradigm can rationalize all optimal investment choices: the optimal investment strategy in any behavioral law-invariant (state-independent) setting corresponds to the optimum for an...

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What Does Matter in Economy Today : Between Rationality and Animal Spirits

Dhaoui, Abderrazak - 2011

. Using a data for five international capital markets in developed countries we find that the hypothesis of rationality losses …

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