The International Conference will be held on 18th and 19th June 2022

Having organized four successful Summer School on Behavioural Finance where participants and resource persons from all over the world have assembled, participated and disseminated the information, this edition of Summer School is coming up with an addition of International Conference on the theme. In the context of a renewed quest for meaningful understanding of observed behaviour that does not fit with the classical paradigm of human rationality, this conference is devoted for the contemporary developments in the area of Behavioural Finance. This conference invites theoretical, empirical, case study, interview based and experimental works that involve the application of different aspects of behavioural finance.


Sub-themes of the conference

The coverage of the course, as well as the sub-themes for presenting papers, will be as follows, however, these theses are indicative only and not exhaustive:

  • Introduction to Behavioural Finance; Rationality of Studying Behavioural Finance, History of Behavioural Finance Studies, Theories of Behavioural Finance, Criticisms of Behavioural Finance, Arguments in Favour of Behavioural Finance
  • Basic Foundations of Behavioural Finance; Context of Studying Behavioural, Building Blocks of Behavioural Finance- Limits to Arbitrage, Psychology
  • Investors’ Psychology and Investment Decisions; Insufficient diversification, Naive Diversification, Excessive Trading, The Selling Decision, The Buying Decision
  • Prospect Theory; Prospect theory model, Applications of Prospect Theory, Limits and Extensions of Prospect Theory, Relevance of Prospect Theory in the Area of Finance
  • Regret Theory; Fear of Regret in Finance Decisions, Rationality of Fear of Regret in Financial Decisions, Anticipatory Regret, Minimizing Fear of Regret
  • Mental Accounting, Overconfidence in Financial Market, Overreaction in Financial Market, Anchoring in Finance, Gambler’s fallacy in Investing, Risk Perception, Herd Behaviour in Finance, Magical thinking in Finance, Hindsight bias in finance, confirmatory bias in finance
  • E-Commerce, E-payment, and behavioural finance
  • An overview of the information security in the context of financial transactions
  • Social media and its impact on finance
  • Sports Finance
  • Agriculture Finance
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Healthcare and financing issues
  • Prospective research dimensions in the aforementioned areas

Paper Submission Guidelines

Research papers should be original unpublished works that follow the conference theme

  • Word limit wolid be 200 to 250 words for structured abstract and 6,000 to 6,500 words for research paper
  • The structured abstract should specify the research objectives, methodology, and major findings
  • Suggested structure of the research paper: Introduction, Review of Literature, Research Gap, Research Methodology, Major Findings, Contributions of the study, Limitations, and Scope for Further Research
  • The text should be written in A4 size, Times New Roman, font size-12 with 1.5 line spacing
  • The reference style should be APA (6th edition).

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper will be awarded based on recommendations of the committee:

  • Category 1: Academicians/Corporate Professionals/Research Scholars: A cash prize for Rs. 5,000 along with Best Paper Award Certificate
  • Category 2 Students: A cash prize of Rs. 2,500 along with Best Paper Award Certificate