Handbook of Behavioral Finance

Contents: PART I: BEHAVIORAL BIAS 1. Framing Effects, Selective Information and Market Behavior: An Experimental Analysis Erich Kirchler, Boris Maciejovsky and Martin Weber 2. Information Overload and Information Presentation in Financial Decision Making Julie Agnew and Lisa Szykman 3. Revealing the Information Content of Investment Decisions Noriyuki Okuyama and Gavin Francis 4. The Disposition Effect and Individual Investor Decisions: The Roles of Regret and Counterfactual Alternative Suzanne O'Curry Fogel and Thomas Berry 5. Overreaction of Exchange Traded Funds during the Bubble of 1998-2002 Jeff Madura and Nivine Richie 6. International Herding in Stock Markets: An Alternate Approach in an International Context Natividad Blasco, Pilar Corredor and Sandra Ferreruela 7. Psychic Distance in the Eight-year Crisis: An Empirical Study Lili Zhu and Jiawen Yang PART II: BEHAVIOR IN THE INVESTMENT PROCESS 8. The Effects of Higher Transaction Costs on Trader Behavior Ryan Garvey and Anthony Murphy 9. Homo Communitatis: A Rigorous Foundation for Behavioral Finance H. Joel Jeffrey 10. Does Mutual Fund Flow Reflect Investor Sentiment? Daniel C. Indro 11. The Impact of Motivational and Cognitive Factors on Optimistic Earnings Forecasts Anna M. Cianci and Satoris S. Culbertson 12. Overconfidence and Active Management Christoph Gort and Mei Wang 13. Availability Heuristic and Observed Bias in Growth Forecasts: Evidence from an Analysis of Multiple Business Cycles Byunghwan Lee, John O'Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan 14. Weak and Strong Individual Forecasts: Additional Experimental Evidence Lucy F. Ackert, Bryan K. Church, Kirsten Ely 15. Behavioural Finance and Investment Advice Kremena Bachmann and Thorsten Hens PART III: GLOBAL BEHAVIOR 16. Measuring the Impact of Behavioral Traders in the Market for Closed-end Country Funds from 2002 to 2009 Hugh Kelley and Tom Evans 17. Holding on to the Losers: Finnish Evidence Mirjam Lehenkari and Jukka Perttunen 18. The Impact of Business and Consumer Sentiments on Stock Market Returns: Evidence from Brazil Pablo Calafiore, Gokce Soydemir and Rahul Verma 19. The Information-adjusted Noise Model: Theory and Evidence from the Australian Stock Market Sinclair Davidson and Vikash Ramiah 20. Ambiguity Aversion and Illusion of Control: Experimental Evidence in an Emerging Market Benjamin Miranda Tabak and Dimas Mateus Fazio 21. Behavioral Finance in Malaysia Ming-Ming Lai, Lee-Lee Chong and Siow-Hooi Tan Index