Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance

 

Special Issue on: "Behavioural Corporate Finance"

Editor: Richard Fairchild, University of Bath, UK

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.

Subject Coverage
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

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Papers should be submitted by: 31 December, 2008