scholarly journals Behavioral Biases as An Effective Factor for the Firm Financial Decision-Making: A Literature Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2103-2115
Author(s):  
Bilgehan TEKIN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Decision-making process is a multi-faceted and complex process. Decision making can be defined like a process of choosing from among a number of alternatives. It will not contribute enough to be fully understood and to effective decision making to be addressed only from the rational point of view. Behavioral finance is an integral part of the decision-making process. Individuals can improve their performance by recognizing the biases which discussed in the framework of behavioral finance. Understanding the possible negative effects of biases allows to the individuals to make better choices and they can avoid repeating the expensive errors in future. Result of investigations of behavioral biases on decision-makers in the firms, managerial bias issue has been raised. The studies show the effect of managerial biases on many financial decisions in firms. This paper investigated the role of biases such as overconfidence, loss aversion, optimism, anchoring, narrow framing, self-serving attribution, disposition effect etc. on financial decisions such as investing, financing, equity market, capital structure etc. This study review of 30 international studies related with behavioral corporate finance and behavioral biases that affect financial decisions in firms. The studies were gleaned from Web of Science and Google Scholar. The main contribution of this study to the literature is this study brings out the impact of behavioral biases on financial decisions in the firms by summarizing the previous studies. In this sense, this work also has an assembly quality. Therefore, this is also intended with this study that to transfer the knowledge and intellectual formation about the impact of behavioral bias on the financial decisions. In this paper, most important behavioral biases in the behavioral finance literature will be addressed.

scholarly journals INVESTOR EXPERTISE AND THE RATIONALITY OF DECISION MAKING

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (310) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Rzeszutek ◽  
Monika Czerwonka ◽  
Magdalena Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Stock Market Investors

The aim of the paper is to is to explore the determinants of the rationality in decision making among polish stock market investors with different level of expertise with investing. Rationality in decision making was defined from the behavioral finance point of view and was operationalized as the frequency of some behavioral biases (see: the certainty effect) within decision making process. In particular, this study aims to investigate the degree of susceptibility the certainty effect among people of various levels of expertise with investing. As  there is still a lack of data studies in behavioral finance literature investigating the issues mentioned in this article (or existing results are ambiguous) we treated our study as an exploratory research.

scholarly journals GROUP BEHAVIORAL BIASES AFFECT FINANCIAL DECISIONS UNLIKE INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORAL BIASES

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Henriques de Brito ◽  
Paula Esteban do Valle Jardim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Group Members

This work presents a new approach to behavioral finance with a theoretical contribution by suggesting and discussing with examples a list of group behavioral biases along with established individual behavioral biases, bringing, hence, an additional outlook on how behavioral biases affect financial decisions. While individual behavioral biases are detected in individuals acting alone, group behavioral biases require the scrutiny of group behavior. This awareness may be particularly important to institutional investors, whose decisions basically stem from a committee or a group that will exhibit behavioral biases depending on how the group members interact between themselves when making a decision, which may include negotiation activities and not necessarily be related to personality or hierarchy. The focus on individual investors deciding on personal investments explain the need of work already developed in behavioral finance, which focus on individual behavioral biases, which may be a consequence from either cognitive errors or emotional biases. However, decisions from institutional investors basically stem from a committee or a group that will exhibit behavioral biases depending on how the group members interact between themselves when making a decision. To address the challenge of identifying causes and consequences for unexpected or unsuitable financial decision-making within a group, this work initially retrieves previous work on individual behavioral biases, linking emotional biases and cognitive errors to the “system 1” and “system 2” decision-making framework. Then, a conceptual contribution of this paper, which may be particularly relevant for institutional investors, is to explain with examples - after research and experience - which are the group behavioral biases and their impact upon financial decisions. Individual behavioral biases already acknowledged in other works on behavioral finance are contrasted in this work to the suggested group behavioral biases. Furthermore, this work suggests that there are two broad types of group behavioral biases: group dynamics biases and information-acceptance biases. Each broad type is subdivided into biases related to the structure of the group and biases related to how the group decision-making procedure occurs. Group dynamics biases related to the manner the group is structured are the following: kin bias (belonging bias), harmony bias, and competition bias. On the other hand, group dynamics biases may be sorted according to five different decision-making procedures, namely: herding, fad bias, Plato bias (denial bias), scarcity bias, and home bias.

Differences in Behavioral Biases in Investment Decision Making: Gender and Occupation Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-35
Author(s):  
Shailesh Rastogi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
The People ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Finance Theory

Investments and Investment decision making come a long way in last few decades. The practical deviation from the established norms of conventional finance made the people know that the investors??buying behavior cannot be understood only by conventional finance theories. Studies strongly support the presence of behavioral aspects in the investment decision making process and behavioral finance provides solution to many-a-problems hitherto not answered appropriately by the conventional finance theory. Moreover, it was also propounded that the behavioral biases vary across gender and occupation of the investors. This study provides evidences for the existence of biases and also provides with the evidences that behavioral biases are not affected by the combined categories of gender and occupation.

The Financial Psychology of Players, Services, and Products

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ricciardi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Familiarity Bias ◽  
Accounting Control ◽  
Investment Service

This chapter provides an overview of the emerging cognitive and emotional themes of behavioral finance that influence individual behavior. The behavioral finance perspective of risk incorporates both qualitative (subjective) and quantitative (objective) aspects of the decision-making process. An emerging subject of research interest and investigation in behavioral finance is the inverse (negative) relation between perceived risk and expected return (perceived return). The chapter highlights important topics such as representativeness, framing, anchoring, mental accounting, control issues, familiarity bias, trust, worry, and regret theory. It also examines the role of negative affective reactions on financial decisions. A host of biases that depend on specific aspects of the financial product or investment service influence the judgment and decision-making process of most financial players.

scholarly journals How Behavioral Aspects Influence the Sustainable Financial Decisions of Shareholders: An Empirical Study and Proposal for a Relevant Decision-Making Concept

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4813
Author(s):  
Mariana Sedliačiková ◽  
Patrik Aláč ◽  
Mária Moresová
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Financial Decision Making ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Furniture Manufacturing ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
The Impact

Behavioral finance is an area or sub-discipline of behavioral economics that examines the real financial behavior and decision-making of people, including the knowledge of psychology and sociology. The objective of this paper was to identify and investigate the impact of significant cognitive, psychological and emotional factors affecting the financial decision-making of the shareholders of woodworking and furniture manufacturing and trading enterprises. This could lead to the design of decision-making concepts which take into account not only cognitive but also psychological and emotional factors and their influences on decision-making process, which could positively affect the sustainable development of the aforementioned types of enterprises. The mapping of the addressed issue was carried out by means of an empirical survey in the practice of the Slovak woodworking and furniture manufacturing and trading enterprises in the form of a questionnaire. The results of the survey were evaluated by descriptive, graphical and mathematical-statistical methods. Conclusions and recommendations were formulated based on the identification of key behavioral aspects (knowledge, security, freedom and sadness), the implementation of which could contribute to eliminating negative deviations and errors in the financial decision-making process of shareholders of woodworking and furniture manufacturing and trading enterprises.

The role of rapid prototyping for surgical planning in a case of caval thrombosis from kidney carcinoma

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Elena Huong Tran ◽  
Domenico Caputo ◽  
Annunziata D'Elia ◽  
Andrea Campisi ◽  
Andrea Soluri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Rapid Prototyping ◽  
Surgical Planning ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Scenario Method ◽  
The Impact

Aim: To define the impact of rapid prototyping for surgical planning in the surgeon’s decision-making process when dealing with a very complex clinical scenario. Method & framework: A straightforward questionnaire involving four simple questions regarding specific technical aspects was administered to the surgeons to evaluate their basic judgments on the surgical strategy to follow. Images from a standard CT scan were used for the subsequent processing and 3D printing of a very cheap anatomical model of a surgical scenario with a low-cost printer, which was shared with the surgeons. At last, the same questionnaire was re-administered to the surgeons. The degree of judgment was found to be modified by approximately 25%. Conclusion: From a surgical point of view, the interaction with technical experts seems to add precious information to the clinical pre-surgical scenario for decision making. Nevertheless, 3D printing was judged too slow for routine adoption.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL ATTITUDE AND FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE ON COMPANY PERFORMANCE WITH FINANCIAL DECISIONS AS INTERVENING VARIABLES: A BEHAVIORAL FINANCE PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Siti Aisyah Hidayati ◽  
Sri Wahyulina ◽  
Embun Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Financial Decision Making ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Lombok Island

This study aims to analyze the effect of Financial Attitude and Financial Knowledge on Company Performance with Financial Decision as an Intervening Variable on Small and Middle Enterprises Owners in Lombok Island. This research's theoretical contribution is expected to contribute to the knowledge and development of behavioral finance theory related to Financial Decision-making and Company Performance in Small and Middle Enterprises. Besides, it is also hoped that behavioral finance will become a subject in the financial management course. Furthermore, this research's practical contribution is expected to provide input, suggestions, and recommendations to the NTB Provincial Government's policymakers in making policies related to SMEs' development.               This research is research based on a quantitative approach, with this type of explanatory research. The study population was all SMEs in Lombok Island. The sampling was carried out by non-probability selection, namely using judgment sampling, selecting SMEs engaged in the pottery industry and had already exported. Of the existing population, there are 35 (Thirty-Five) SMEs that can be taken as samples. Respondents in this study are the owners of each of these SMEs. The data collection technique used in this study was to use a questionnaire. The data obtained will be processed as needed by using GSCA (Generalized Structured Component Analysis) statistical tools to achieve the research objectives and hypothesis testing.               The results showed that Financial Attitude and Financial Knowledge had a positive and significant effect on Financial Decision-making. Financial Decisions did not mediate the impact of Financial Attitude and Financial Knowledge on Company Performance, and Financial Decisions had a negative and significant effect on Company Performance. This circumstance is also motivated by the age of most of the respondents of productive age, mostly male, most of the education level is high school, and the length of business is more than 10 (ten) years. Keywords: Financial Attitude, Financial Knowledge, Financial Decision, Company Performance

scholarly journals Irrationality of managers’ behavior in corporate financial decision making

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Marcin Banaszek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Finance ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
Financial Decision Making ◽  
Irrational Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
Behavioral Corporate Finance

Purpose of the study: The subject of consideration is the behavioral aspects of corporate finance. The consideration is devoted to the basic inclinations of psychological nature characteristic of managers. The main purpose of the article is to characterize the irrational behavior of managers in the process of financial decision-making in the enterprise. Methodology: The paper was prepared with the use the critical literature review method mainly in the field of behavioral corporate finance. Main findings: The discussion shows that behavioral corporate finance focuses mainly on cognitive and motivational-emotional processes in managers, which may occur in various decision areas within which managers make choices. There are three groups of psychological phenomena and inclinations that are characteristic of managers who manage business entities, namely predispositions to systematic inference errors, heuristics, and the presentation effect. Application of the study: The presented article refers to the irrational behavior of managers in the process of making financial decisions in the company. It implies reflections in such scientific fields as, among others, economics and finance, management and psychology. The use of the tools of psychology allows analyzing the problems of financial decision-making of managers in the enterprise, noticing in them some deviations from rationality that can affect the efficiency of the enterprise. The content of the article can be useful for managers making financial decisions in an enterprise. Originality/Novelty of the study: Behavioral finance is a young discipline of finance, the scientific output of which in Poland is still small. Behavioral aspects are just beginning to gain importance in the decision-making process, especially the financial one. The tendencies of managers to irrationality in the decision-making process presented in this article allow us to better understand the errors, psychological factors that may cause wrong decisions, which in turn may translate into poorer financial condition of the whole enterprise. The article can inspire further research and inquiry in the field of behavioral finance and contribute to other interesting scientific studies.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media Use on Consumers’ Restaurant Consumption Experiences: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6581
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Hwang ◽  
Anita Eves ◽  
Jason L. Stienmetz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
The Impact

Travellers have high standards and regard restaurants as important travel attributes. In the tourism and hospitality industry, the use of developed tools (e.g., smartphones and location-based tablets) has been popularised as a way for travellers to easily search for information and to book venues. Qualitative research using semi-structured interviews based on the face-to-face approach was adopted for this study to examine how consumers’ restaurant selection processes are performed with the utilisation of social media on smartphones. Then, thematic analysis was adopted. The findings of this research show that the adoption of social media on smartphones is positively related with consumers’ gratification. More specifically, when consumers regard that process, content and social gratification are satisfied, their intention to adopt social media is fulfilled. It is suggested by this study that consumers’ restaurant decision-making process needs to be understood, as each stage of the decision-making process is not independent; all the stages of the restaurant selection process are organically connected and influence one another.

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