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<p>In recent years, an irrational phenomenon in financial markets is grabbing the attention of behavioral economists: the disposition effect. Firstly discovered by H. Shefrin and M. Statman (1985), the disposition effect consists in the realization that investors are more likely to sell an asset when it is gaining value compared to when it is losing value. A phenomenon which is closely related to sunk costs’ bias, diminishi