Review of Behavioral Finance: Volume 10 Issue 4

Short-term contrarian and sentiment by traders’ types on futures markets: Evidence from the DCOT traders’ positions

Walid Bahloul

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the interaction between sentiments and past prices can lead to higher abnormal profit in futures markets. Such examinations…

A systematic test for myopic loss aversion theory

Raone Botteon Costa

Myopic loss aversion, or the combination of loss aversion and frequent portfolio evaluation, has been argued to possibly be one of the factors behind the equity premium puzzle…

Can advisors eliminate the outcome bias in judgements and outcome-based emotions?

Kremena Bachmann

An outcome bias occurs when performance is evaluated based upon the outcome of the decision rather than upon the quality of the decision itself. The purpose of this paper is to…

Behavioral biases and retirement assets allocation of corporate pension plans

Rahul Verma, Priti Verma

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of behavioral biases, disposition effect and house money effect in investment decisions of defined benefit pension funds…

January sentiment effect in the US corporate bond market

Zhongdong Chen, Karen Ann Craig

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of January sentiment on investors’ asset allocation decisions in the US corporate bond market during the rest of the year…