Behavioral finance

D Hirshleifer - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Behavioral finance studies the application of psychology to finance, with a focus on
individual-level cognitive biases. I describe here the sources of judgment and decision …

Do managers overreact to salient risks? Evidence from hurricane strikes

O Dessaint, A Matray - Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We study how managers respond to hurricane events when their firms are located in the
neighborhood of the disaster area. We find that the sudden shock to the perceived liquidity …

Behavioral corporate finance: An updated survey

M Baker, J Wurgler - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes
one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial …

Does borrowing from banks cost more than borrowing from the market?

M Schwert - The Journal of Finance, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the pricing of bank loans relative to capital market debt. The analysis
uses a novel sample of loans matched with bond spreads from the same firm on the same …

Influence of the framing effect, anchoring effect, and knowledge on consumers' attitude and purchase intention of organic food

L Shan, H Diao, L Wu - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This article explores consumers' attitude toward and purchase intention of organic food
regarding the influence of the framing effect and anchoring effect and the role of knowledge …

Lottery-related anomalies: the role of reference-dependent preferences

L An, H Wang, J Wang, J Yu - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Previous empirical studies find that lottery-like stocks significantly underperform their non-
lottery-like counterparts. Using five different measures of the lottery features in the literature …

Clouded judgment: The role of sentiment in credit origination

K Cortés, R Duchin, D Sosyura - Journal of Financial Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
Using daily fluctuations in local sunshine as an instrument for sentiment, we study its effect
on day-to-day decisions of lower-level financial officers. Positive sentiment is associated …

Reference-dependent preferences and the risk–return trade-off

H Wang, J Yan, J Yu - Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper studies the cross-sectional risk–return trade-off in the stock market. A
fundamental principle in finance is the positive relation between risk and expected return …

Weight, insulin resistance, blood lipids, and diet quality changes associated with ketogenic and ultra low-fat dietary patterns: a secondary analysis of the DIETFITS …

L Aronica, MJ Landry, J Rigdon, CD Gardner - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The DIETFITS trial reported no significant difference in 12-month weight loss
between a healthy low-fat and healthy low-carbohydrate diet. Participants were instructed to …

Partisanship in loan pricing

R Dagostino, J Gao, P Ma - Journal of Financial Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Does partisanship influence the way investors price financial assets? Using voter
registration data of bankers originating large corporate loans, we show that bankers whose …