{"title":"Financial worry and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in 88 Countries: Did public confidence in National Governments matter?","authors":"Jamila Beckles , Mahalia Jackman","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100940","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments implemented various measures to control the spread of the virus, enhance healthcare systems, and mitigate the economic impact of these actions. In this study, we investigate how government responses to COVID-19, in terms of stringency and economic support, affected individuals' financial worries in 88 economies. We also investigate how the relationship between these variables was affected by the public’s confidence in the government. Our results suggest that greater stringency was associated with increased financial worry, irrespective of public trust in the government. Meanwhile, the impact of economic support policies varied with the level of public trust in the government. In countries where citizens reported high levels of confidence in their government, economic support to households helped to alleviate financial worry. In countries with low confidence levels, the support policies had no statistically significant impact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100940"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141143892","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":"Institutional/retail investor active attention and behavior: Firm coverage on Mad Money","authors":"Lawrence Kryzanowski , Ali Rouhghalandari","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100937","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We find that firm coverage on the popular Mad Money Show is significantly associated with institutional and retail investor active attention, proxied by SEC EDGAR queries and posts on StockTwits. The association strengths differ by recommendation directions (buy or sell) and a firm’s exposure on the Show. The associations remain after controlling for selection bias, other firm-specific news, and moderating events (e.g., Superbowl and Olympics). The increased investor active attention is associated subsequently with abnormal trading volumes and short-sales activities of institutional/retail investors, and retail investor portfolios. While the opening price captures most of the significant association between Show coverage and next day’s returns, the extent of subsequent reversals varies by Show segment, recommendation direction and moderators (e.g., firm-coverage frequency on the same Show). No abnormal returns are associated with any pre-Show publicity about upcoming guest interviews. Our findings are consistent with the association of the media and its potential influencers with the limited active attention budgets of investors, different behaviors of retail and institutional investors, and the shorting of contrarian investors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100937"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214635024000522/pdfft?md5=26f9d0ab63b994320d6a4e6b804237fb&pid=1-s2.0-S2214635024000522-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140914007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinga Barrafrem , Daniel Västfjäll , Gustav Tinghög
{"title":"Financial Homo Ignorans: Development and validation of a scale to measure individual differences in financial information ignorance","authors":"Kinga Barrafrem , Daniel Västfjäll , Gustav Tinghög","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Information ignorance refers to the act of deliberately avoiding, neglecting, or distorting information to uphold a positive self-image and protect our identity-based beliefs. We apply this framework to household finance and develop a concise 12-item questionnaire measuring individuals’ receptiveness to financial information, or the lack thereof – the Financial Homo Ignorans (FHI) Scale. We conduct two studies with samples from the general population in Sweden (total N=2508) and show that the FHI scale has high reliability and distinct from other commonly used individual-difference measures in behavioral finance. We show that individual heterogeneity as assessed by the FHI scale explains a substantial variation in financial behaviors and financial well-being, also when controlling for demographics and financial literacy. These results unequivocally demonstrate the utility of the FHI scale as a valuable instrument for researchers and practitioners in comprehending and addressing the challenges posed by the omnipresence of financial information in today's world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100936"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214635024000510/pdfft?md5=1674a92f37804093aac7f5b65e0f7af5&pid=1-s2.0-S2214635024000510-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140843495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point shaving? A novel experiment and new insights","authors":"Richard Borghesi , Rodney Paul , Andrew Weinbach","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In light of the exponential growth in sports betting since 2018, a deeper understanding of the prevalence and nuances of corruption is needed. We demonstrate that in the venues and leagues where the likelihood of game fixing is high (among home teams and in NCAA basketball) point shaving markers are more pronounced, and where it is low (among visiting teams and in NCAA football) such indicators are muted. We explore this suspicious pattern via a natural experiment designed to exploit a positive exogenous shock in media scrutiny. Employing an exceptionally deep and broad dataset we show that corruption markers do not attenuate under social pressure and provide robust evidence that innocuous behaviors explain suspect game and wager outcomes. Our study establishes that a high degree of competitive integrity exists in the NCAA, NBA, and NFL.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100935"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140768464","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":"Loss aversion and focal point bias: Empirical evidence from housing markets","authors":"Stephen L. Ross , Tingyu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Most research documenting correlation between behavioral biases use survey or experimental data, often focusing on related biases. We test whether evidence of loss aversion in housing sales prices is stronger among individuals who exhibited focal point tendencies when selecting their mortgage amount at purchase, allowing for market impacts of both behavioral biases in high-stakes contexts. We find a strong positive relationship between the effects of facing a loss on eventual sales prices and whether sellers selected a round mortgage amount during their initial purchase. Further, we show that selecting round mortgage amounts is persistent within borrowers over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100930"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140557955","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":"Prospect theory in M&A: Do historical purchase prices affect merger offer premiums and announcement returns?","authors":"Beni Lauterbach , Yevgeny Mugerman , Joshua Shemesh","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prospect Theory suggests that when the pre-offer market price is below the historical purchase price, target shareholders may be reluctant to accept a merger offer, because it requires realizing nominal losses. In a sample of all U.S. public firm merger offers in 1990–2019, we find that the acquirer partially compensates target shareholders, including retail investors, for their losses via a higher offer premium. Consistent with Prospect Theory, the marginal compensation decreases with loss size and is higher in cash-only deals. We also show that the extra premium paid hurts (boosts) acquirer (target) shareholders' wealth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100931"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214635024000467/pdfft?md5=1f2772bb8704e345f9a3adf8f4b348fe&pid=1-s2.0-S2214635024000467-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140947154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of trauma insurance on quality of life among cancer survivors","authors":"David Todd Hatswell , Vikash Ramiah , Damien Wallace , P.P. Nithi Krishna , Glenn Muschert , A.V. Nair Biju , Krishna Reddy","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100929","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates Australian cancer survivors' Quality of Life (QOL) concerning whether they own trauma insurance. This research examines (1) whether financial planning mechanisms alleviate financial stress, maintaining the QOL of cancer survivors, (2) how receipt of financial proceeds impacts QOL, and (3) whether emotion affects the financial decisions of cancer patients. Researchers used qualitative research methods to investigate the relationship between trauma insurance ownership and QOL in cancer survivors, considering demographic factors such as gender, age and income, type of cancer, treatment type, the meaning of life, financial planning mechanisms, emotional finance, and risk-shifting behavior. Findings show a general decrease in the QOL of survivors without trauma insurance and less change in the quality of life of survivors with trauma insurance. We attribute this difference to the additional benefits survivors buy with their insurance proceeds. Trauma insurance and other financial mechanisms function to mitigate financial stress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100929"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140554666","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":"Does every cloud (bubble) have a silver lining? An investigation of ESG financial markets","authors":"Matteo Foglia , Federica Miglietta","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the presence of financial bubbles in the environmentally friendly investments captured by the ESG markets. By using the log-periodic power law singularity framework, we identified several periods of positive and negative bubbles in the short, medium, and long term. Moreover, we examined the relationship between ESG attention sentiment and financial bubbles. We found an asymmetric effect of ESG sentiment on financial bubbles, i.e., increasing positive and decreasing negative bubbles. Our empirical results provide valuable insights into the stability of environmentally friendly markets, which help risk managers and policymakers respond appropriately to financial and social bubbles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100928"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214635024000431/pdfft?md5=39fabcded22938899622a8b840121fd4&pid=1-s2.0-S2214635024000431-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140536374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olaf Simonse , Wilco W. Van Dijk , Lotte F. Van Dillen , Eric Van Dijk
{"title":"Economic predictors of the subjective experience of financial stress","authors":"Olaf Simonse , Wilco W. Van Dijk , Lotte F. Van Dillen , Eric Van Dijk","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100933","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100933","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The subjective experience of financial stress has profound implications for well-being, health, cognitive performance, and decision-making. In a sample of Dutch households (N = 1114), we studied the association of five economic factors - income, saving, debts, income volatility, and employment - with a four-factor measure of financial stress: 1) an appraisal of insufficient financial resources, 2) an appraisal of lack of control over one's financial situation, 3) financial worries and rumination, and 4) a short-term focus. This enabled us to examine the economic factors' relative contributions to predicting<span><sup>5</sup></span> financial stress. We found that the combination of economic factors predicted financial stress better than income alone. Particularly, buffer savings had a large contribution to predicting financial stress. The number of debts had a smaller relative contribution to predicting financial stress, whereas we did not find support for debt amount as a predictor of financial stress. Employment was negatively associated with financial stress, but only for households with the lowest incomes. We found no support for income volatility predicting financial stress. These results imply that research and policy on financial stress should have a broader scope than income alone and should take a more integrative approach to households' financial situation, considering savings, number of debts, and unemployment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100933"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140768629","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":"How does CEOs’ early-life experience of China’s Great Famine impact corporate green innovation?","authors":"Yuying Jin, Guangyu Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100932","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Investigating the antecedents of corporate green innovation (CGI) from a CEO perspective has garnered increasing attention in recent years. Our study examines whether and how CEOs’ early-life experience of China’s Great Famine affects CGI. Using data from listed Chinese manufacturing firms from 2007 through 2018, we perform feasible general least squares regression to show that CEOs’ early-life Great Famine experience exhibits a significant and negative impact on CGI. Furthermore, this effect is particularly evident in firms situated in areas with low levels of environmental regulation and social trust.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100932"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140351006","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}