Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets Hardcover - 2010
by H. Kent Baker (Editor); John R. Nofsinger (Editor)
From the rear cover
Behavioral finance has increasingly become part of mainstream finance--helping to provide explanations for our economic decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource--part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance--provides a comprehensive view of behavioral finance by discussing the current state of research in this area and detailing its potential impact on investors, corporations, and markets.Comprising contributed chapters by distinguished experts from some of the most influential firms and universities in the world, Behavioral Finance provides a synthesis of the essential elements of this discipline including psychological concepts and behavioral biases; the behavioral aspects of asset pricing, asset allocation, and market prices; investor behavior, corporate managerial behavior, and social influences. Divided into six comprehensive parts, it skillfully:
- Describes the fundamental heuristics, cognitive errors, and psychological biases that affect financial decisions
- Discusses market inefficiency and behavioral-based pricing models
- Explores corporate and executive behavioral finance and examines the behavioral influences involving their investment and financing decisions
- Addresses how behavioral finance applies to individual and institutional investors' holdings and their trading endeavors
- Shows how cultural factors and societal attitudes affect markets
Behavioral Finance contains the latest information from some of the leading practitioners and academics in this field. Engaging and accessible, this book provides a clear understanding of how people make financial decisions and their effects on today's markets.
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Behavioral finance has increasingly become part of mainstream finance--helping to provide explanations for our economic decisions by combining behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource--part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance--provides a comprehensive view of behavioral finance by discussing the current state of research in this area and detailing its potential impact on investors, corporations, and markets.Comprising contributed chapters by distinguished experts from some of the most influential firms and universities in the world, Behavioral Finance provides a synthesis of the essential elements of this discipline including psychological concepts and behavioral biases; the behavioral aspects of asset pricing, asset allocation, and market prices; investor behavior, corporate managerial behavior, and social influences. Divided into six comprehensive parts, it skillfully:
- Describes the fundamental heuristics, cognitive errors, and psychological biases that affect financial decisions
- Discusses market inefficiency and behavioral-based pricing models
- Explores corporate and executive behavioral finance and examines the behavioral influences involving their investment and financing decisions
- Addresses how behavioral finance applies to individual and institutional investors' holdings and their trading endeavors
- Shows how cultural factors and societal attitudes affect markets
Behavioral Finance contains the latest information from some of the leading practitioners and academics in this field. Engaging and accessible, this book provides a clear understanding of how people make financial decisions and their effects on today's markets.
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- Title Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets
- Author H. Kent Baker (Editor); John R. Nofsinger (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2010-10-05
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470499115 / 0470499117
- Weight 3.3 lbs (1.50 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7.5 x 2 in (25.40 x 19.05 x 5.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Investments - Psychological aspects, Investments - Decision making
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010010865
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.15
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