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  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,898 Views
36 Pages

22 February 2025

Research published about the restaurant industry has experienced consistent growth over the past few decades. Yet, a comprehensive bibliometric review of this research has not been performed. This study aimed to perform such a review by examining pee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,072 Views
25 Pages

24 July 2025

This study investigates the mechanisms by which green finance mitigates non-point source pollution. Based on provincial panel data from China spanning 2005 to 2023, this study conducts an empirical analysis that yields several key findings: (1) The d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,836 Views
23 Pages

Behavior and Sustainable Finance: A Bibliometric Approach

  • Elena Muñoz-Muñoz,
  • Eva Crespo-Cebada,
  • José C. Corchado and
  • Carlos Diaz-Caro

11 July 2025

This paper is intended to highlight the importance of developing knowledge on sustainable finance using bibliometric analysis. The study is based on a review of sources from two of the most prominent scientific databases in the world, Scopus and Web...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Leadership and Change Management: Driving Sustainability Initiatives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,036 Views
20 Pages

Behavioral Intentions of Bank Employees to Implement Green Finance

  • Hung-Yu Chen,
  • Raofeng Guo,
  • Chin-Chao Hung,
  • Zong-Han Lin and
  • Mengshan Wu

29 July 2023

To understand the behavioral intentions of bank employees to implement green finance, this study explores the impact of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on behavioral intention based on the theory of planned behavior. In ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,267 Views
17 Pages

Agricultural Internet Entrepreneurs’ Social Network Behaviors and Entrepreneurship Financing Performance

  • Zichun Yan,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Ze-Yu Wang,
  • Jian Yu and ,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Guodong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 July 2018

From the perspective of social network behavior, our paper discusses the relationship between agricultural entrepreneurial social network behavior and entrepreneurial financing performance in an Internet crowdfunding setting, and investigates the mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,336 Views
29 Pages

28 April 2023

Facing the need for green investment and financing brought about by the process of “carbon neutrality”, more and more leaders of commercial banks have begun to initiate green transformation of their enterprises and become green bankers wi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,262 Views
17 Pages

Modeling Investment Decisions Through Decision Tree Regression—A Behavioral Finance Theory Approach

  • Dana Rad,
  • Lavinia Denisia Cuc,
  • Gabriel Croitoru,
  • Bogdan Cosmin Gomoi and ,
  • Luminița Mazuru,
  • Raluca Simina Bilți,
  • Sergiu Rusu,
  • Maria Sinaci and
  • Florentina Simona Barbu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

This study examines the key factors influencing investment decisions through decision tree regression, grounded in behavioral finance theory. By analyzing a comprehensive dataset incorporating behavioral, demographic, and financial variables—in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, 3rd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,950 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2024

The interplay between land management and real estate market dynamics is critical for sustainable development. This study employs behavioral finance theory to explore how irrational behaviors among key market participants, including developers, consu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets—2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,407 Views
24 Pages

Despite extensive research on financial literacy and financial decision-making, the scholarly literature remains conceptually fragmented, particularly regarding how behavioral biases mediate or moderate the relationship between knowledge and financia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Insights into Financial Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,716 Views
23 Pages

This study examines the influence of FinTech Paylater, Financial Well Being (FW), Behavioral Finance (BF), and Digital Financial Literacy (DFL) on the sustainability of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in South Sumatera, Indonesia. Using...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Financial Literacy in Modern Finance)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,691 Views
27 Pages

10 April 2024

In this paper we offer a comprehensive review of Sociophysics, focusing on relevant models as well as selected applications in social trading, behavioral finance and business. We discuss three key aspects of social diffusion dynamics, namely Opinion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Network Modeling: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
909 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2026

Systemic interaction mechanisms exist in the impact of renewable energy investment on regional economic growth, yet most existing research adopts fragmented analytical perspectives. This study integrates behavioral variables—environmental cogni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systemic Governance in Smart Cities: Rethinking Urban Complexity)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
307 Views
37 Pages

Behavioral Choice Architecture in Digital Finance: A Comparative Bibliometric Review of Nudges, Sludges, and Responsible FinTech Across Emerging and Developed Economies

  • Nelson León-Silva,
  • Daniel Lingue-Toro,
  • Paolo Coñopan-Calluil,
  • José Miguel Monsalve-Fuentes and ,
  • María Teresa Espinosa-Jaramillo and
  • Jairo Dote-Pardo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Digital financial platforms increasingly embed behavioral choice architecture—nudges, gamification, and occasionally sludges—whose welfare consequences vary with institutional context. This study reports a comparative bibliometric and str...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
66,384 Views
51 Pages

Review on Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets

  • Kai-Yin Woo,
  • Chulin Mai,
  • Michael McAleer and
  • Wing-Keung Wong

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,866 Views
22 Pages

12 May 2025

The construction industry’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant financial difficulties, exacerbated by disruptions such as COVID-19. Traditional supply chain finance models, relying on core enterprise credit, fail to addr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,813 Views
10 Pages

Financing Target and Resale Pricing in Reward-Based Crowdfunding

  • Lei Xu,
  • Qingxia Wu,
  • Peng Du,
  • Xiaojiao Qiao and ,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Dahui Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 April 2018

Resale is an effective tool for reward-based crowdfunding creators to make more profit after crowdfunding successfully. On the one hand, funds raised during the crowdfunding affect the resale pricing as a capital constraint; on the other hand, backer...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
941 Views
22 Pages

Background: This study examines how four canonical behavioral biases (overconfidence, herding, anchoring, and loss aversion) influence investor decision-making in the Saudi stock market (Tadawul), and whether overconfidence and loss aversion operate...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,344 Views
22 Pages

Market Signals and Investor Behavior in Green Bond Pricing: Evidence from China

  • Xinyan Deng,
  • Kentaka Aruga,
  • Yoshihiro Zenno,
  • Mengge Li and ,
  • Yue Ban and
  • Chaofeng Tang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study examines how green bond financing costs in China are jointly shaped by market pricing mechanisms and institutional investor behavior. It develops an integrated two-level framework linking issuance-level bond characteristics with investor d...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable and Green Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,408 Views
21 Pages

Blockchain technology enables innovative financing models in supply-chain finance. This research constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model that includes core enterprises as employers, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as contractors, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,554 Views
27 Pages

Cryptocurrency investment in India has quickly become a mainstream financial activity, but it is still highly prone to psychological factors that impact the decision-making of retail investors. This study examines the effect of personality traits on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,579 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2022

Improving enterprises’ green innovation ability is beneficial to realize the “win–win” of economic development and environmental protection. As the global economic situation is complex and volatile, economic policies changed f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Technologies in Sustainable Energy Forecasting and Economical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,349 Views
23 Pages

This study examines the relationship between managerial overconfidence and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance through firm-level financial policy channels in an emerging-market context. Using panel data from non-financial firms l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance and ESG: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,867 Views
25 Pages

14 May 2024

This study investigates the determinants of trading activity in the U.S. corporate bond market, focusing on the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and macroeconomic announcements. Employing the General-to-Specific (Gets) Autometrics methodo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Analysis in Financial Crisis and Stock Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,401 Views
16 Pages

This study investigates how consumers respond to firm communications emphasizing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) dimensions. Through experimental design, how consumers distinguish among ESG components and how each affects behavioral financ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance and ESG Investment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,762 Views
17 Pages

R&D investment is the source of technological innovation of pharmaceutical enterprises, but it will be restricted by the funding level, especially in the context of major public health emergencies occurring more frequently, therefore exploring th...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
19,801 Views
26 Pages

15 July 2023

The stock market represents one of the most complex mechanisms in the financial world. It can be seen as a living being with complex ways to enact, interact, evolve, defend, and respond to various stimuli. Technical analysis is one of the most comple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Developments in Modeling Current Financial Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,088 Views
14 Pages

23 August 2022

This study aims to test the adaptive market hypothesis by using the myopic behavior of investors as a new proxy. The data have been taken from New York Stock Exchange from December 1994 to December 2020. Following this collection of data, the compani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,918 Views
13 Pages

Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Environmental Protection in the Financial Decisions of Individual Consumers

  • Damian Walczak,
  • Leszek Dziawgo,
  • Danuta Dziawgo,
  • Michał Buszko and ,
  • Jarosław Pawłowski,
  • Agnieszka Żołądkiewicz-Kuzioła and
  • Dorota Krupa
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 March 2021

Insufficient environment protection may have serious ecological consequences, resulting in a number of problems in the modern world, many of which are a direct result of human behavior. Therefore, one needs to limit negative ecological effects by con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumers' Behavioral Economics in Energy Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,589 Views
21 Pages

Our paper investigates how emotions and cognitive biases shape small investors’ decisions in a bearish market or are perceived as such. Using semi-structured interviews and a focus group, we analyze the behavior of eight management science stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviour in Financial Decision-Making)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,895 Views
32 Pages

Portugal’s Crowdfunding: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Bruno Torres,
  • Zélia Serrasqueiro and
  • Márcio Oliveira

This study aims to analyze and classify the evolution of crowdfunding in Portugal from 2014 to 2020, addressing the central question, “What is the evolution of literature on crowdfunding and its research focuses in Portugal?”. Additionall...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,655 Views
27 Pages

Generational Insights into Herding Behavior: The Moderating Role of Investment Experience in Shaping Decisions Among Generations X, Y, and Z

  • Abdul Syukur,
  • Amron Amron,
  • Fery Riyanto,
  • Febrianur Ibnu Fitroh Sukono Putra and
  • Rifal Richard Pangemanan

Understanding generational differences in herding behavior is crucial for policymakers, financial educators, and market regulators, particularly in emerging markets where retail investor participation is rapidly growing. This study investigates the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,713 Views
23 Pages

In an increasingly complex financial landscape, individual financial behavior is shaped by a range of cognitive, technological, and psychological factors. Existing research on financial behavior often examines financial literacy, FinTech adoption, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fintech, Digital Finance, and Socio-Cultural Factors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,742 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2023

Due to the limitations of traditional financial analysis and the non-specificity of laboratory-based gambling tasks, it is difficult for researchers to isolate the independent contributions of risk perception and initial investment experience on novi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Decision Making Behaviors in Management and Marketing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,874 Views
20 Pages

Household savings are a long-term financial issue that can undermine the financial well-being of American families if not addressed. This study examines financial planning strategies through the Behavioral Life-Cycle (BLCH) hypothesis, focusing on lo...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,645 Views
48 Pages

This study maps the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of buy now, pay later (BNPL) research published between 2010 and 2025, with particular attention to how impulsive buying and post-purchase regret are positioned within the broader BNPL...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
23,235 Views
19 Pages

ESG Issues among Fund Managers—Factors and Motives

  • Justyna Przychodzen,
  • Fernando Gómez-Bezares,
  • Wojciech Przychodzen and
  • Mikel Larreina

24 October 2016

This paper investigates the motives, behavior, and characteristics shaping mutual fund managers’ willingness to incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into investment decision making. Using survey evidence from fund managers fr...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,506 Views
18 Pages

12 June 2020

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 inve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Business and Behavioral Financial Economics with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,986 Views
24 Pages

In this paper, a level set analysis is proposed which aims to analyze the S&P 500 return with a certain magnitude. It is found that the process of large jumps/drops of return tend to have negative serial correlation, and volatility clustering phe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,656 Views
20 Pages

Resilience and Risk Tolerance of Small Entrepreneurs in the Brazilian Northeast

  • Joyce Silva Soares de Lima,
  • Liana Holanda Nepomuceno Nobre,
  • Wesley Vieira da Silva and
  • Juliana Carvalho de Sousa

9 March 2026

This study examines the relationship between financial risk tolerance and organizational resilience among small business managers in the Brazilian Northeast, a region strongly affected by economic fragility and intensified uncertainty during and afte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,068 Views
19 Pages

This study investigates how financial literacy, FinTech adoption, and financial attitudes shape economic decision-making among millennials in Lebanon, a crisis-affected emerging economy. The study examines whether enhancing financial literacy can str...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Insights into Financial Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
591 Views
40 Pages

3 June 2026

This study examines how cyber awareness is translated into secure employee behavior in organizations through a systems thinking perspective that connects human resource management, organizational processes, and technological conditions. Rather than t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Interrelation of Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance Using Systems Thinking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,647 Views
19 Pages

This paper offers a comprehensive empirical overview of the impact of overconfidence in the stock market, thus contributing to the existing research literature on this topic. The study employs a bibliometric approach that utilizes the VOSviewer to ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Literature Reviews in Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,867 Views
34 Pages

19 February 2025

This study explores smoothing techniques to refine financial risk tolerance (FRT) data for the improved prediction of financial market indicators, including the Volatility Index and S&P 500 ETF. Raw FRT data often contain noise and volatility, ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,458 Views
38 Pages

This study investigates the socio-economic characteristics, behavioral preferences, and consumption of individuals who own crypto-assets. Our empirical analysis utilizes data from a German personal finance management app where users connect their ban...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,829 Views
37 Pages

This paper analyzes the 1/3 Financial Rule, a method of allocating income equally among debt repayment, savings, and living expenses. Through mathematical modeling, game theory, behavioral finance, and technological analysis, we examine the rule&rsqu...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,393 Views
20 Pages

7 October 2022

To achieve successful investments, in addition to financial expertise and knowledge of market information, a further critical factor is an individual’s personality. Decisive people tend to be able to quickly judge when to invest, while calm peo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,400 Views
20 Pages

This study takes the limited household participation in risky financial markets as its point of departure. Drawing on microdata from the 2019 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we construct a multidimensional analytical framework using machine le...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,986 Views
37 Pages

9 February 2026

This paper develops a portfolio construction methodology integrating behavioral finance principles with machine learning to model how cognitive biases systematically alter asset allocation decisions. We introduce a Distorted Value Transformation fram...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,687 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Weather Factors on Quotations of Energy Sector Companies on Warsaw Stock Exchange

  • Waldemar Tarczyński,
  • Sebastian Majewski,
  • Małgorzata Tarczyńska-Łuniewska,
  • Agnieszka Majewska and
  • Grzegorz Mentel

10 March 2021

Recent researches on behavioral finance have tested for, among others, evidence for the relations between weather, investors’ mood, and investment decisions. Many of the researches related to the influence of some weather factors, such as sunshine du...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Development and Energy Consumption Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,145 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2026

This study investigates how the origin and language of public attention influence financial markets during geopolitical conflict, using Israel’s experience during the 2023–2025 Gaza War as a case study. We use Google Trends data—in...

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