Sociofinance
A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Economics and Finance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 7334
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sociofinance (also known as social finance) is an emerging subfield of economics that studies the implications of social factors for financial behavior. Our preferences, limitations, and aspirations are profoundly shaped by the surrounding norms, customs, and social pressures. Social factors are particularly important for finance. What is the objective of the firm? How do labor relations affect industries and markets? What determines corporate governance arrangements? Why do asset price bubbles form? When is lending predatory? What constrains fraudulent behavior? The answers to these fundamental questions are deeply rooted in the social environments.
Historically, most social factors have been relatively stable partly due to the limited mobility of people across areas and socio-economic groups. Recent developments in technology, however, have made the world smaller and more transparent. As a result, the impact of the social environment on individual behavior has intensified. Economic and finance phenomena would be increasingly more difficult to understand without taking these developments into consideration.
This Special Issue welcomes conceptual papers (of around 3,000 words), as well as full-length articles on various topics that pertain to social finance. Both empirical and theoretical papers would be considered.
Prof. Dr. Christo Pirinsky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Finance
- Asset pricing
- Corporate finance
- Social influence
- Social norms
- Culture
- Networks
- Trust
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