Academic research · Financial economics

Zuzana Janková, Ph.D.

Researcher in Behavioural Finance
and Financial Decision-Making

Faculty of Business and Management
Brno University of Technology · Czech Republic

My research examines how financial information is interpreted and how investor sentiment, information regimes and emerging technologies relate to financial market risk and decision-making under uncertainty.

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Selected Publications

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Finance
Research
Letters2026 Cover or first page of the article in Finance Research Letters

Media Interpretation, Investor Attention, and Volatility Escalation in Global Financial Markets

Finance Research Letters (2026) · Single-author article
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2026.110956

Journal of
Forecasting2026 Cover or first page of the Journal of Forecasting article

Exploring the Nexus Between Sustainability Index and Central European Stock Markets Competitiveness: Evidence Through Time–Frequency Analysis and SHAP

Journal of Forecasting, 45(5), 2213–2237 (2026)
DOI: 10.1002/for.70141

Journal of
Business
Economics
& Management2023 Cover or first page of the Journal of Business Economics and Management article

Critical Review of Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis for Stock Market Prediction

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 24(1), 177–198 (2023)
DOI: 10.3846/jbem.2023.18805

Journal of
Competitiveness2023 Typographic web preview for Journal of Competitiveness, volume 15, issue 1 (2023); not an official cover

Hybrid Wavelet Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Tool Supporting Competitiveness and Efficiency of Predicting the Stock Markets of the Visegrad Four Countries

Journal of Competitiveness, 15(1), 56–72 (2023) · Single-author article
DOI: 10.7441/joc.2023.01.04

Research Projects

Institutional record ↗

Enhancing Financial Digital Literacy in the V4: Building Digital Competencies for Financial Security

International Visegrad Fund · February 2026 – July 2027

Co-investigator · Coordinator for the Czech partner

Advanced Decision-Making Models for Risk Management in the Digital Economy

Austria–Czech bilateral research cooperation · 2025 · Supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Principal Investigator

Erasmus+ KA171 – International Credit Mobility

Academic mobility and cooperation with partner institutions in Georgia.

Participant · International academic cooperation

Research Stays & International Collaboration

2019 · Taiwan

National Chengchi University

Research visit under the supervision of Prof. Shu-Heng Chen.

2022 · India

Haldia Institute of Technology

Erasmus+ research visit; continuing collaboration with Prof. Dipak Kumar Jana through joint research and publications.

2023 · Netherlands & Hungary

Leiden University of Applied Sciences · Széchenyi István University

Invited academic lectures and research exchange.

2024 · Romania & Austria

POLITEHNICA Bucharest · FHWien der WKW

Invited lectures under international academic mobility.

2025 · Georgia & Portugal

International Black Sea University · Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Invited academic lectures and ongoing international cooperation.