Behavioral Finance Experiments: A Recent Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

This article aims to elaborate a systematic literature review (SLR) on the subject of experiments in behavioral finance, including papers published between 2014 and 2018. Methodology involved the careful selection of articles published in Web of Science and Scopus databases, and bibliometric analysis was applied. Final sample included 60 articles, the Journal of Behavioral Finance was the most productive journal and the majority of the 152 authors worked in the Americas. For cocitation, important authors, such as Kahneman and Tversky and Barber and Odean were among the most cited and with greater relational ties. For bibliographic coupling, Bursztyn et al. and Bigelow et al. were the most cited, whereas Kadous et al. presented more relational ties. The research contribution lies in the application of the SLR to a growing research area, allowing to know the most relevant subjects, articles, journals, authors, and countries in the area nowadays.