Siddhesh S. Soman , Abhijit Chirputkar , Krunal K. Punjani
{"title":"Loss aversion in investment: A bibliometric and network visualization analysis","authors":"Siddhesh S. Soman , Abhijit Chirputkar , Krunal K. Punjani","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Loss aversion is widely considered one of the most influential behavioral biases among investors and has been studied by several researchers over the years. However, a bibliometric study on the topic of ‘Loss Aversion in Investment’ does not exist. To address this gap, we present the first-ever bibliometric and network visualization analysis based on 427 research articles published from 1996 to October 2025. A comprehensive bibliometric protocol was followed, covering document selection, bibliometric analysis, network analysis, and content analysis. Data extracted from ‘Scopus’ database was analyzed using ‘Bibliometrix’ tool. Key indicators included annual research output, citation patterns, co-authorship, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, thematic trends, and keyword analysis. Network visualization was conducted using ‘VOSviewer’, while thematic analysis utilized Biblioshiny to identify emerging research themes. These analyses reveal key clusters in behavioral finance theories and emerging themes in asset allocation. The findings provide theoretical insights, practical implications, and directions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101155"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146188866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional dynamics and knowledge spillover in collaborative innovation","authors":"Zhen Che , Wenke Yang , Changqi Wu , Qin Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of emotional factors and knowledge spillover on the behavioral tendencies of firms, universities, and research institutions within dynamic collaborative innovation environments. Drawing on Rank-Dependent Expected Utility (RDEU) theory with integrated emotional functions, we develop a collaborative innovation model to investigate how knowledge spillovers and emotions shape cooperative dynamics. The results show that players’ emotional states exert a nonlinear influence on strategic decisions, with outcomes determined not by optimism or pessimism alone, but by the intensity of emotions and mutual expectations. Furthermore, knowledge spillovers condition these dynamics by weakening cooperative incentives among optimistic players, while strengthening the willingness of more cautious players to sustain collaboration, with cooperative stability evolving across different stages of interaction. These findings provide new insights into the strategic processes of collaborative innovation from both emotional and knowledge spillover perspectives, offering governance implications for enhancing cooperation among industry, universities, and research institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101143"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145977828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attention to detail: Learning about mergers","authors":"Adam L. Aiken , Choonsik Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the information gathering process around mergers by examining institution-matched IP addresses accessing Form 8-K filings for merger agreements. Attention to these filings measures merger-related uncertainty and is associated with both portfolio decisions and deal outcomes. We find that attention from investment management firms, in particular, reveals characteristics of the merger, as it is related to the eventual withdrawal of the deal or the involvement of an activist. Investment firm attention is also linked to portfolio changes, especially when that attention is new. Finally, we show that soft information in the filing text helps explain both the decision to learn about a merger and the likelihood that the deal is ultimately withdrawn.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101163"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147396470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of alternative data in micro-enterprises’ credit risk assessment in China — Empirical evidence based on machine learning","authors":"Min Jiang , Jichuan Shi , Yukai Zheng , Wei Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Applying alternative data in credit reporting can enhance financial institutions' ability to assess the credit risk of micro-enterprises. This paper uses data from an internet bank serving micro-enterprises and categorizes alternative data into historical credit data (HCD) and behavioral data—the latter including economic transaction data (ETD) and social stability data (SSD). The random forest method is employed to compare these data types in credit risk assessment. The findings reveal that multi-dimensional alternative data holds significant credit value for micro-enterprise risk assessment and can improve the predictive performance and stability of the models. The behavioral data-based models demonstrate superior risk identification capability compared with the HCD-based one. ETD generally outperforms SSD in assessment, though SSD is more stable under external shocks. While external environmental shocks may reduce the model's precision in detecting potential defaults, the model's overall ranking stability remains intact. Notably, the integration of multi-dimensional alternative data can mitigate data volatility through feature complementarity, thereby enhancing model robustness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101154"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146188867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vijaya B. Marisetty , Wouter van Heeswijk , Archana Narayanan
{"title":"An agent-based model of rumor-induced volatility in financial markets","authors":"Vijaya B. Marisetty , Wouter van Heeswijk , Archana Narayanan","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2025.101135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2025.101135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rumors in financial markets impact investors’ decisions, driving asset prices away from their fundamental valuations. From a regulatory perspective, it is challenging to contain such rumors. We develop an agent-based model to understand the price discovery process in a simulated stock market that allows heterogeneous agents, who differ in financial literacy and cognitive ability to interact for price formation. We show that both financial literacy and cognitive ability are important determinants of rumor spread in stock markets: Higher (lower) cognitive ability and higher (lower) financial literacy reduce (increase) rumor spread. Our results suggest that both the prevalence and intensity of financial literacy play a significant role in reducing rumor induced volatility and promoting market stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101135"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gagan Deep , Akash Deep , Svetlozar T. Rachev , Frank J. Fabozzi
{"title":"Google Trends—Augmented XGBoost for market volatility prediction: A machine learning early warning system","authors":"Gagan Deep , Akash Deep , Svetlozar T. Rachev , Frank J. Fabozzi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We develop GT-XGBoost, a machine learning early warning system that integrates Google search attention signals with traditional volatility indicators for market spike prediction. Using monthly search volume indices for recession, financial crisis, volatility, and stock market crash terms (2004–2024), we construct behavioral features through momentum, acceleration, and composite attention measures. Our optimized model achieves one-month-ahead VIX spike (<span><math><mrow><mo>≥</mo><mn>30</mn></mrow></math></span>) prediction with ROC AUC of 0.745, demonstrating competitive performance among thirteen academic benchmarks including GARCH family models, stochastic volatility approaches, and realized volatility specifications. The system demonstrates 70.6% precision with financial crisis searches providing a one-month leading indicator (correlation: 0.660). Validation through safe-haven gold price analysis confirms systematic 3.32% returns during volatility episodes. Our findings establish that behavioral attention signals, particularly recession-related search patterns, provide dominant predictive information for institutional risk management when integrated with traditional volatility indicators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101159"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147396466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthias Herrmann-Romero , Simon Liegl , Martin Angerer , Thomas Stöckl
{"title":"Golden eye — How traders focus on and select information in experimental asset markets","authors":"Matthias Herrmann-Romero , Simon Liegl , Martin Angerer , Thomas Stöckl","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2025.101138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2025.101138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we examine the subjective importance that traders attribute to specific information elements in experimental asset markets in two ways. First, using eye-tracking technology, we determine which given elements garner the most visual focus among traders. Second, we let traders actively choose a limited set of the given elements to determine which ones they deem important to have while trading. Our results indicate that the order book is the most important to traders, while the price chart is of low importance. There is only a conditional alignment between the elements that receive the most visual focus and those that traders select. Additionally, cognitive abilities play a non-trivial role in determining which information elements traders focus on. Finally, we find mixed evidence of a potential link between visual focus and trading performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101138"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145884739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bonus structures and bubble formation in experimental asset markets","authors":"Xiaohui Wang , Yukihiko Funaki","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we examine how different tournament-style bonus structures influence asset bubbles in experimental markets. We compare two structures: one that rewards a broad group of traders (“Bonus for Most”) and another that rewards only a few top performers (“Bonus for Few”). The findings indicate that the Bonus for Most structure is more likely to exacerbate bubble formation when traders gain experience. Under this structure, traders are more inclined to buy overpriced assets, not to improve long-term performance, but to boost short-term portfolio values and increase their chances of earning a bonus. This behavior, referred to as strategic asset accumulation, is less common under Bonus for Few, which offers lower opportunities for such manipulation-driven rewards. These findings demonstrate how short-term tournament incentives can unintentionally amplify price distortions, underscoring the importance of thoughtful incentive design in supporting market efficiency and stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146077932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time-varying risk aversion and the equity term structure","authors":"Martijn A. de Vries","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I show that time-varying risk aversion over wealth can generate a term structure of equity risk premia that is upward sloping in bad times and downward sloping in good times. I thereby provide a mechanism behind recent reduced-form models that successfully match the counter-cyclicality of the equity term structure assuming exogenous stochastic discount factors. The parsimonious model that I propose jointly matches the empirical findings on the conditional equity term structures, cross sectional variation of the equity term structure, return predictability and the idiosyncratic volatility puzzle. I also discuss several new predictions. More broadly, I illustrate the importance of key experimental findings of risk preferences, like being domain-specific, time-varying and allowing risk seekingness, for understanding asset prices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 101141"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146188863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}