Research on Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Dear Colleagues,

Behavioral and experimental finance continues to provide powerful insights into how real-world decision-makers respond to information, incentives, and market environments. This Special Issue invites high-quality empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions that advance our understanding of investor behavior, managerial decision-making, market reactions, and financial outcomes shaped by psychological and behavioral mechanisms. We particularly welcome studies that incorporate innovative data sources, natural experiments, laboratory or field experiments, and computational methods, including machine learning and text analysis, to uncover behavioral patterns that traditional models may not capture.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, investor beliefs and biases; heterogeneous reactions to corporate announcements; behavioral drivers of asset pricing anomalies; managerial behavior under uncertainty; social interactions and networks in financial markets; behavioral implications of fintech innovations; and experimental approaches that provide causal evidence on financial decision-making. We also encourage cross-disciplinary work drawing from psychology, economics, and data science.

The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together studies that deepen our understanding of behavioral foundations in finance, highlight emerging methodologies, and offer new perspectives that can inform theory, practice, and policy. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Jung Chul Park
Guest Editor

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