This paper examines the value relevance of leverage to equity investors. We construct a short-term investment strategy based on leverage of Indian firms over a ten year period. We examine the ability of leverage to predict stock returns by analysing the cumulative abnormal returns for a holding...

This paper explores whether and how feedback, framing, personality, and risk attitude could affect financial optimism in an enclosed experimental environment. Evidence in this paper shows that feedback on investment performance affects financial optimism depending on whether people forecast...

This paper studies the link between individual investors' portfolio diversification levels and various personal traits that proxy informational advantages and overconfidence. The analysis is based on objective data from the largest Turkish brokerage house tracking 59,951 individual investors'...