An increasing number of professional studies are being published about the new field of behavioral finance. This paper offers an overview of behavioral finance and reviews literatures about its origin, content and rationale of this developing study. Some evidence has been given that behavioral finance exists in both developed financial markets and emerging markets. This paper focuses on how behavioral bias influences individual investment decisions and corporation’ s capital structure.

Yidan Xing. The impact of behavioral bias on individual investors and corporation capital structure. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2020) Vol. 2, Issue 4: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2020.020401.

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