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Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Financial Literacy

Asaad, Colleen Tokar

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2013, PHD, Kent State University, College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Ambassador Crawford / Department of Finance.
This dissertation examines two inter-related topics in finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Finance. Both Cultural Finance and Behavioral Finance assume that humans are boundedly rational or irrational, thus rejecting traditional or neoclassical notions of pure rationality. Specifically, this dissertation considers how the values and attitudes of nations influence financial decision-making of countries and companies (Cultural Finance) and how cognitive and social factors influence the financial decision-making of households and individuals (Behavioral Finance).
John Thornton (Committee Co-Chair)
Andrei Shynkevich (Committee Co-Chair)
John Dunlosky (Committee Member)
Robert Bloom (Committee Member)
Emmanuel Dechenaux (Other)

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  • Asaad, C. T. (2013). Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Financial Literacy [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365599205

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Asaad, Colleen. Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Financial Literacy. 2013. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365599205.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Asaad, Colleen. "Two Essays in Finance: Cultural Finance and Behavioral Financial Literacy." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365599205

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)