This paper studies the effect of investor sentiment on the London stock market on a daily basis over the period 1899 to 2010. We use a broad mix of reporting from the Financial Times as our proxy for investor sentiment. The main contribution of this paper is threefold. First, newspaper...

In dieser Studie wird eine Auswahl an zentralen Denkfehlern bei der Geldanlage dargestellt, die aufgrund von begrenzt rationalem Verhalten getroffen werden. Auf Basis aktueller Studien aus der Verhaltensökonomik wird erklärt, wieso sich Anleger häufig falsch verhalten und was sie dagegen tun...

Integrated capital markets facilitate risk sharing across countries. Lower home bias in financial investments is an indicator of risk sharing. We highlight that existing indicators of equity home bias in the literature suffer from incomplete coverage because they consider only listed equities....

Through application of state-space modelling, the asset pricing model is re-explored. The result is an asset pricing model which tracks the evolution of investor probability beliefs and learning through a Kalman filter. This behaviourally inspired model shows marked improvement over a...

Pitching research helps researchers to outline a research idea systematically to understand the feasibility and keep the research heading in the right direction. This letter adopts the pitching template suggested by Faff (2015a) into a behavioural finance research topic. Specifically, I utilize...