Presenting an Investment Efficiency Model Based on Managers' Behavioral Biases with Emphasis on the Role of Investment Sentiment

Today, managers' behavioral biases play a very important role in investment and investment sentiment. Behavioral methods of managers can shape the efficiency of investment in companies. Based on this, the main goal of the current research is to provide an investment efficiency model based on the behavioral biases of managers, emphasizing the role of investment sentiment in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The statistical population of the research is all the companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange. As a sample, 143 companies were examined in the period from 2012 to 2019. Hypotheses testing was done using the combined data regression method and panel data in EViews10 software. The results obtained at the 95% confidence level using the generalized least squares method showed that overconfidence bias has a negative and significant effect on investment efficiency. Also, investment sentiment have a moderating and negative role in the relationship between overconfidence and investment efficiency. But the biases myopia, optimism and agency intuition variables have no significant effect on investment efficiency. Also, investment sentiment do not play a moderating role in the relationship between biases myopia, optimism and agency intuition with investment efficiency. Based on the results, it can be said that based on behavioral financial principles, the increase in investors' desire to invest in a company increases the overconfidence of managers, and they invest based on their feelings, which ultimately reduces investment efficiency.