Purpose: The paper aims to provide the individual routes of the authors into behavioural finance in order to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides the background to the authors' personal route into behavioural finance. Findings: The paper highlights...

Purpose – The paper draws on the key themes raised at a Round Table discussion on behavioural finance attended by academics and practitioners. The paper provides a background to the key aims of behavioural finance research and the development of the discipline over time. The purpose of this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify herding behaviour on financial markets and measure the herding behaviour impact on the accuracy of analysts' earnings forecasts. Design/methodology/approach – Two alternative measures of herding behaviour, on analysts' earnings forecasts are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of leverage mimicking factor portfolios in explaining stock return variations. This paper broadens the focus of the current asset pricing literature by forming portfolios mimicking the leverage factor. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of leverage mimicking factor portfolios in explaining stock return variations. This paper broadens the focus of the current asset pricing literature by forming portfolios mimicking the leverage factor. Design/methodology/approach –...