Behavioral finance : investors, corporations, and markets /

"A definitive guide to the growing field of behavioral finance. This reliable resource provides a comprehensive view of behavioral finance and its psychological foundations, as well as its applications to finance. Comprising contributed chapters written by distinguished authors from some of the...

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Other Authors: Baker, H. Kent 1944-, Nofsinger, John R., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2010.
Series:Robert W. Kolb series in finance.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Foundation and key concepts. 1. Behavioral finance: an overview / H. Kent Baker, John R. Nofsinger
  • 2. Traditional versus Behavioral Finance / Robert Bloomfield
  • 3. Behavioral finance: application and pedagogy in business education and training / Rassoul Yazdipour, James A. Howard
  • 4. Heuristics or rules of thumb / Hugh Schwartz
  • 5. Neuroeconomics and neurofinance / Richard L. Peterson
  • 6. Emotional finance: the role of the unconscious in financial decisions / Richard J. Taffler, David A. Tuckett
  • 7. Experimental finance / Robert Bloomfield, Alyssa Anderson
  • 8. The Psychology of risk / Victor Ricciardi
  • 9. Psychological influences on financial regulation and policy / David Hirshleifer, Siew Hong Teoh
  • Part II. Psychological concepts and behavioral biases. 10. Disposition effect / Markku Kaustia
  • 11. Prospect theory and behavioral finance / Morris Altman
  • 12. Cumulative prospect theory: tests using the stochastic dominance approach / Haim Levy
  • 13. Overconfidence / Markus Glaser, Martin Weber
  • 14. The representativeness heuristic / Richard J. Taffler
  • 15. Familiarity bias / Hisham Foad
  • 16. Limited attention / Sonya S. Lim, Siew Hong Teoh
  • 17. Other behavioral biases / Michael Dowling, Brian Lucey
  • Part III. Behavioral aspects of asset pricing. 18. Market inefficiency / Raghavendra Rau
  • 19. Belief- and preference-based models / Adam Szyszka
  • Part IV. Behavioral corporate finance. 20. Enterprise decision making as explained in interview-based studies / Hugh Schwartz
  • 21. Financing decisions / Jasmin Gider, Dirk Hackbarth
  • 22. Capital budgeting and other investment decisions / Simon Gervais
  • 23. Dividend policy decisions / Itzhak Ben-David
  • 24. Loyalty, agency conflicts, and corporate governance / Randall Morck
  • 25. Initial public offerings / François Derrien
  • 26. Mergers and acquisitions / Ming Dong
  • Part V. Investor behavior. 27. Trust behavior: the essential foundation of financial markets / Lynn A. Stout
  • 28. Individual investor trading / Ning Zhu
  • 29. Individual investor portfolios / Valery Polkovnichenko
  • 30. Cognitive abilities and financial decisions / George M. Korniotis, Alok Kumar
  • 31. Pension participant behavior / Julie Richardson Agnew
  • 32. Institutional investors / Tarun Ramadorai
  • 33. Derivative markets / Peter Locke
  • Part VI. Social influences. 34. The role of culture in finance / Rohan Williamson
  • 35. Social interactions and investing / Mark S. Seasholes
  • 36. Mood / Tyler Shumway
  • Part VII. Answers to chapter discussion questions.