Behavioral Finance and Investor Psychology
When illness leads to illegality: How a cancer diagnosis reshapes the decision to commit a crime
A study of Danish administrative records finds that cancer diagnoses are linked to a 14% rise in criminal convictions, driven by lost income, shorter survival horizons, and psychological distress.
How your personality may shape whether you pick value or growth stocks
A study of 351 students in Italy and Pakistan links Big Five personality traits to value versus growth stock preferences, with financial confidence and cognitive flexibility as the connecting pathways.
New research links local employment shocks to cognitive decline in older men
New research using local labor-demand shocks finds that employment losses are linked to measurable cognitive decline among men aged 51 to 64, extending earlier findings about retirement-age workers to the years well before traditional retirement.
What traders actually look at: Eye-tracking study finds the price chart is largely ignored
An eye-tracking experiment finds that traders fixate on the order book, not the price chart, when making decisions in simulated asset markets.