This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis offers seventeen chapters from invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress, held in Turkey between the 19th and 21st April 2018. The chapters included tackle a range of issues, including risk and control in consumer behavior; augmented reality applications in brand trust; foreign exchange rates; and brand reputation influence, among many more. Covering concepts such as retirement planning, the stock market, and herd behavior, Contemporary Issues in Behavioral Finance is a fundamental text for any researcher or student of behavioral finance, with a cast of expert contributors and editors.

About the Author
Dr. Simon Grima (PhD) is the Head of the Insurance Department and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta. He served as the President of the Malta Association of Risk Management (MARM) and Malta Association of Compliance, and has over 25 years of experience in in Financial Services, Internal Controls, Investments and IT. Dr. Ercan OEzen (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Usak, Turkey. He is chair of the International Applied Social Sciences Congress, a certified accountant, and a member of both the Agean Finance Association and TEMA (Turkey Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Resources Foundation). Dr. Hakan Boz (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Usak's School of Applied Sciences, in Turkey. Prior to joining academia he has held various positions in the tourism and hospitality sector, and now carries out research to better understand consumer and employee behavior in those sectors. Dr. Jonathan Spiteri (PhD) is a Resident Academic within the Department of Insurance at the University of Malta. With experience in both the private sector and in academia, he is currently involved in the R2Pi Horizon 2020 project, which examines Circular Economy models in Europe. Dr. Eleftherios I. Thalassinos (PhD) is a Jean Monnet Chair Professor at the University of Piraeus, Greece. He is the Editor-in-Chief of ERSj, IJEBA, and Chair of ICABE.

Reviews
Drawn from the International Applied Social Science Congress, held in Turkey in April 2018, the 17 chapters in this volume explore issues in behavioral finance. Contributors working in business, economics, marketing, and other fields at universities in Europe and Egypt discuss the relationship between risk and control in consumer behavior, the use of machine learning techniques for predicting future states of economy data, volatility spillover between the BIST100 Index and the S&P500 Index, brand reputation and its influence on consumer behavior, augmented reality applications from the perspectives of brand trust and the purchase intentions of customers, women's cooperatives as a tool of employment policy in Turkey, the impact of financial literacy on cognitive biases of individual investors, retirement planning, consumer cash and cashless payments in Poland, and marketing communications and experiential marketing in the context of augmented reality. Others consider the relationship between exports, imports, and the exchange rate; herd behavior on the Borsa Istanbul exchange; factors affecting internet banking preferences and the relation to demographic characteristics in Turkey; cognitive biases in the Turkish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; herd behavior and its effects on the purchasing behavior of investors; factors involved in retirement planning by Maltese nationals; and how government governance helps world stock market development. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787698826
Author Simon Grima
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 573g