CORPORATE FINANCIAL DECISIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF BEHAVIORAL CORPORATE FINANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Öz
Traditional perspective in corporate finance considers the managers as rational individuals who try to
increase expected utility. In this sense, managers are assumed to behave unbiased in their decisions.
However, recently, there is a criticism about this assumption for not taking into consideration cognitive
biases for the corporate financial decisions and this criticism is supported with empirical findings that the
cognitive biases can be effective on corporate financial decisions. In this context, behavioral corporate
finance is emerging as a new and significant research area by focusing on managerial irrationality.
Behavioral corporate finance is about corporate financial decisions with the focus of behavioral biases
without ignoring the traditional approaches. In the literature, overconfidence bias is basically used;
however, herding behavior, loss aversion and anchoring are also used as managerial biases. Investigations
have attempted to explain the capital structure decisions of these prejudices, dividend distribution,
investment decisions and the effects on cash holding policies. This work is a comprehensive literature
review which aims to explain the empirical findings about how behavioral biases affect corporate financial
decisions and thus to draw attention to the importancy of these works for the future researches in this
area.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Behavioral corporate finance,corporate financial decisions,managerial irrationality,cognitive biases
Kaynakça
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