“…The results are consistent with the position that investors’ judgments of risk and return, both mediated by sentiment, influence market prices. Studies identify many behavioral variables affecting investor judgment as investment-related knowledge and experience (Victoravich, 2010), financial professionals’ overconfidence (Peterson et al , 2015; Gloede and Menkhoff, 2014), decision goal (Young, 2009), social influence (Andersson et al , 2014), analyst overoptimism (Jones and Johnstone, 2012), multiple information sources and subjective confidence (Du and McEnroe, 2011), affect (Sevdalis et al , 2009), information spillovers (Hovakimian and Saenyasiri, 2014), unconditional size effect (Antoniou et al , 2014), expected information quality (Kwag, 2014), analyst’s evaluation of extent to disclosure reliability (McEwen et al , 2008) and information on which analysts base their forecasts – trend, variability and recency (Ashton and Cianci, 2007).…”