This paper introduces the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal's special issue on behavioral
finance in Asia. We first briefly discuss behavioral finance in general, and then we explain …

On a visit to the London School of Economics (LSE) in November 2008, Her Majesty the
Queen understatedly but pointedly inquired why no one had noticed beforehand that the …

Hubristic leadership Page 2 With a Foreword by Lord David Owen Eugene Sadler-Smith
Hubristic Leadership Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support …

In this paper we explain the process and policy implications of Japanese firms' adoption of
recently reformed corporate governance practices. We use a selective adaptation framework …

Mergers in Japan have the dubious distinction of not creating wealth for shareholders of
target firms, in sharp contrast to what occurs in much of the rest of the world. Using a sample …

We analyze the investment performance of 6993 investors bidding in 77 discriminatory IPO
auctions in the Taiwan stock market between January 1996 and April 2000, and find that …

This paper reviews the theory of Chief Executive Officer hubris and related constructs. It is to
identify the area of Chief Executive Officer hubris clearly and to clarify the confusion of …

This study aims to examine the effect of overconfidence behaviours of the managers of the
companies whose stocks are traded in Borsa Istanbul on the firm value. In the study, a model …

Although corporate acquisitions are ubiquitous a large number of M&A fails. One
explanation for such failure is the hubris hypothesis for corporate takeovers. A decision …

This research seeks to provide an insight into the identification and understanding of
linguistic markers of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) hubris. It analyses spoken and written …