Lately, investors' sentiment has become one of the major concentrations of finance literature on asset pricing model. Many research findings argued that changes in investors' sentiment measure could have an impact on stock returns and volatility and that investors' sentiment might be an...

The objective of this paper is to conduct an analysis on a very significant behavioral finance issue discussed in its recent studies; namely, the relationship between investors' sentiment and the returns of stock markets. This study will be conducted in the context of the Saudi stock exchange...

Recent literature in empirical finance is surveyed in its relation to underlying behavioral principles, principles which come primarily from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The behavioral principles discussed are: prospect theory, regret and cognitive dissonance, anchoring, mental...