Ambiguity aversion: bibliometric analysis and literature review of the last 60 years

C Bühren, F Meier, M Pleßner - Management Review Quarterly, 2023 - Springer
We conduct a bibliometric analysis and review the literature of the last six decades on
ambiguity aversion. Comparing trends in theoretical, experimental, and empirical …

Asset pricing and ambiguity: Empirical evidence

M Brenner, Y Izhakian - Journal of Financial Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce ambiguity in conjunction with risk to study the relation between risk, ambiguity,
and expected returns. Distinguishing between ambiguity and attitudes toward ambiguity, we …

Financial literacy and fraud detection——Evidence from China

L Wei, M Peng, W Wu - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether and how financial literacy could help improve fraud
detection. Results demonstrate that fraud-detection ability increases with the improvement in …

Ambiguity about volatility and investor behavior

D Kostopoulos, S Meyer, C Uhr - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity about volatility (V-VSTOXX) to individual
investor trading. We use the trading records of more than 100,000 individual investors from a …

A sense of risk: Responses to crowdfunding risk disclosures

P Shrestha, J Thewissen… - Strategic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how reward‐based crowdfunding
backers respond to risk disclosures. Combining theoretical frameworks from financial …

Investing during a Fintech Revolution: Ambiguity and return risk in cryptocurrencies

D Luo, T Mishra, L Yarovaya, Z Zhang - Journal of International Financial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationally justifying Bitcoin's immense price fluctuations has remained a persistent
challenge for both investors and researchers in this field. A primary reason is our potential …

Ambiguity and the tradeoff theory of capital structure

Y Izhakian, D Yermack, JF Zender - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine the impact of ambiguity, or Knightian uncertainty, on the capital structure
decision, using a static tradeoff theory model in which agents are both ambiguity and risk …

Ambiguity, volatility, and credit risk

P Augustin, Y Izhakian - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We explore the implications of ambiguity for the pricing of credit default swaps (CDSs). A
model of heterogeneous investors with independent preferences for ambiguity and risk …

Uncertainty avoidance and stock price informativeness of future earnings

I Tsalavoutas, F Tsoligkas - Journal of International Financial Markets …, 2021 - Elsevier
We explore whether uncertainty avoidance, an important aspect of national culture,
influences the level of informativeness of share prices about future earnings. Uncertainty …

Ambiguity preferences and portfolio choices: Evidence from the field

M Bianchi, JM Tallon - Management Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
We match administrative panel data on portfolio choices with survey data on preferences
over ambiguity. We show that ambiguity averse investors bear more risk, due to a lack of …