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Do Accounting and Finance Master’s Students Apply Prospect Theory?
Author(s) -
Maria Teresa Venâncio Dores Alves
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista cea
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2422-3182
pISSN - 2390-0725
DOI - 10.22430/24223182.1466
Subject(s) - prospect theory , certainty , actuarial science , isolation (microbiology) , accounting , institution , psychology , economics , set (abstract data type) , sample (material) , risk aversion (psychology) , positive economics , finance , financial economics , sociology , expected utility hypothesis , social science , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , programming language
This study aims to question the assumptions of prospect theory using a sample of students enrolled in a master’s course on accounting andfinance at a Portuguese polytechnic institution. Such theory has stood out among others developed in the field of Behavioural Finance due to the debate and investigation it has generated. To achieve this aim, we applied a questionnaire four consecutive years (2012–2015). The instrument included a set of alternative response questions that seek to unveil respondents’ preferences regarding the situations they were presented with. Bibliographic and descriptive research was carried out and the results were compared with those obtained by other authors but they were not always consistent. Thus, the isolation effect was confirmed; the reflection effect was almost always confirmed; and the certainty effect was not always confirmed. Regarding attitude toward risk, the assumptions of risk aversion, and importance given to changes in wealth (at the expense of wealth states), our results are in line with those obtained by said authors. Hence, this study contributes to support prospect theory with its results and the confirmation of the isolation effect. El objetivo de este estudio es verificar los supuestos de la teoria de la perspectiva en una muestra compuesta por estudiantes que asistieron a un curso de maestria en contabilidad y finanzas en una institucion politecnica en Portugal. Esta teoria se ha destacado entre otras desarrolladas en el campo de las finanzas conductuales por el debate y la investigacion que ha generado. Para lograr el objetivo mencionado, adaptamos el cuestionario de los autores de la teoria de la perspectiva. El cuestionario se aplico cuatro anos consecutivos (de 2012 a 2015) e incluyo un conjunto de preguntas de respuesta alternativa que buscan conocer las preferencias de los encuestados frente a las situaciones que se exponen. Tambien se realizo una investigacion bibliografica y descriptiva y se compararon los resultados con los obtenidos por otros autores. Los resultados no siempre fueron consistentes con los de dichos autores. Se verifico el efecto de aislamiento, el efecto de reflexion (casi siempre) y el efecto de certeza (no siempre). Adicionalmente, en cuanto a la actitud hacia el riesgo, los supuestos de aversion al riesgo y la importancia dada a los cambios en la riqueza (a expensas de estados de riqueza), nuestros resultados estan en la misma linea que los de tales autores. Con estos ultimos resultados y la confirmacion del efecto de aislamiento, este estudio hace una contribucion a la teoria de la perspectiva.

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