Call for papers: Behavioural Corporate Finance

Call for papers: Behavioural Corporate Finance

A special issue of International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance

Behavioural corporate finance examines the effects of managers’ and investors’ psychological biases on firms’ corporate finance decisions, such as investment appraisal, capital structure, and dividend policy. The aim of this special issue is to publish high quality, innovative theoretical and empirical papers that promote understanding of behavioural corporate finance, in order to provide a platform for the future research agenda.

Topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to;

• The effects of managers' and investors' biases on capital structure decisions
• The effects of managers' and investors' biases on capital budgeting
• The effects of managers' and investors' biases on dividend and share repurchasing policy
• Inefficient markets and managerial market timing of corporate finance decisions
• The effect of overconfidence on corporate finance decision-making
• Prospect theory, regret theory, and corporate finance decision-making
• Bounded rationality and corporate finance decision-making

Important Date
Papers should be submitted by: 30 September, 2008