Finanças corporativas comportamentais: uma análise bibliométrica dos vieses excesso de confiança e otimismo na literatura internacional

Abstract

This study investigates the cientific production in Behavioral Corporate Finance, especially those who treat about the biases overconfidence and management optimism. A research was done on bibliometric at international level concerning the years of 2000 thru 2015. There were 57 articles identified and analyzed. The results show that there was a sharper evolution from the research of this subject matter after 2011. The University of Sfax in Tunisia and the Journal of Financial Economics outshined in the publishings of this subject matter. The authors Abdelfettah Bouri, Ezzeddine Ben Mohamed, Geoffrey Tate and Ulrike Malmendier were the most prolific in the period. The study “CEO overconfidence and corporate investment” of Geoffrey Tate and Ulrike Malmendier was the most mentioned, becoming a reference of the model of measuring the biases of overconfidence and optimism to other researchers. Merges and acquisions, cash flow sensibility, Corporate Investiments and structure of Capital were the issues most addressed by the researches. Concludes that the main issue about Behavioral Corporate Finance is still emergent and in a maturation phase, however of extreme importance, as the biased managements´ decisions can evoke significant impacts in many areas of the companies. Therefore, this study contributes to the knowldege and diffusion of this subject matter in Brazil, promoting a reflection about the questionings that are still in open and poiting to directions, in a way to propitiane other brazilian researchers to develop future studies.