Measuring the Effecting Behaviors Finance Factors on Investment Decision Making/ : Analytical study at private universities at Kurdistan Region

Ammar Waleed Mohammed

doi:10.25212/lfu.qzj.8.5.44

Authors

Ammar Waleed Mohammed Department of Accounting, College of Administration and Financial Sciences, Knowledge University, Kirkuk Road, 44001 Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25212/lfu.qzj.8.5.44

Keywords:

Behavior Factors, investment, Overconfidence, Risk Aversion, Choice Architecture.

Abstract

The investment is the economy pillar in any country, so there are some factors the investors need to know about it to be courage for investment in any sector with the many existing risks in every investment.

In this paper we offer some finance behaviors factors that effect on decision making in investment and how that factors effect on the selective behavior to decide which investments are the best. We distributed about 100 questioners to the Cihan University and Knowledge University academic staff and we received 88, so the sample of the research is 88 individuals. The aim we look for its testing the hypothesis and give some theoretical framework and give the results of this paper

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