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Investments -- Psychological aspects.
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Capital market -- Psychological aspects.
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Decision making.
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| Descript |
xii, 242 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface xi Introduction 1 Part I Introduction to Behavioral Finance Chapter 1 What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis? 5 Information and the Efficient Market Hypothesis 6 Random Walk, the Martingale Hypothesis, and the EMH 8 False Evidence against the EMH 11 What Does It Mean to Disagree with EMH? 13 Chapter 2 The EMH and the "Market Model" 15 Risk and Return the Simplest View 15 The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 18 So, What is the Market Model? 23 Chapter 3 The Forerunners to Behavioral Finance 25 The Folklore of Wall Street Traders 26 The Birth of Value Investing: Graham and Dodd 28 Financial News in a World of Ubiquitous Television and Internet 29 Part II Noise Traders Chapter 4 Noise Traders and the Law of One Price 33 The Law of One Price and the Case of Fungibility 33 Noise 38 Chapter 5 The Shleifer Model of Noise Trading 43 The Key Components of the Shleifer Model 44 Results 49 Why the Shleifer Model is Important 50 Resolving the Limits to Arbitrage Dispute 51 Chapter 6 Noise Trading Feedback Models 53 The Hirshleifer Model 53 The Subrahmanyam-Titman Model 58 Conclusion 62 Chapter 7 Noise Traders as Technical Traders 65 Technical Traders as Noise Traders 67 Herd Instinct Models 72 Conclusion 76 Part III: Anomalies Chapter 8 The Rational Man 81 Consumer Choice with Certainty 81 Consumer Choice with Uncertainty 84 The Allais Paradox 90 Conclusion 92 Chapter 9 Prospect Theory 93 The Reference Point 93 The S-Curve 94 Loss Aversion 96 Prospect Theory in Practice 98 Drawbacks of Prospect Theory 98 Conclusion 100 Chapter 10 Perception Biases 101 Saliency 101 Framing 103 Anchoring 106 Sunk Cost Bias 108 Conclusion 109 Chapter 11 Inertial Effects 111 Endowment Effect 111 Status Quo Effect 116 Disposition Effect 119 Conclusion 120 Chapter 12 Causality and Statistics 123 Representativeness 123 Conjunction Fallacy 127 Reading into Randomness 129 Small Sample Bias 131 Probability Neglect 133 Conclusion 134 Chapter 13 Illusions 135 Illusion of Talent 135 Illusion of Skill 138 Illusion of Superiority 139 Illusion of Validity 141 Conclusion 142 Part IV Serial Correlation Chapter 14 Predictability of Stock Prices: Fama-French Leads the Way 147 Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model 147 A Plug for Value Investing 149 Mean Reversion The DeBondt-Thaler Research 151 Why Fama-French is a Milestone for Behavioral Finance 152 Chapter 15 Fama French and Mean Reversion: Which Is It? 155 The Month of January 155 Is This Just About Price? 157 The Over-reaction Theme 157 Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny (1994) on Value Versus Growth 158 Is Over-reaction Nothing More Than a Small Stock Effect? 159 Daniel and Titman on Unpriced Risk in Fama and French 164 Summing Up the Contrarian Debate 165 Chapter 16 Short Term Momentum 167 Price and Earnings Momentum 167 Earnings Momentum Ball and Brown 168 Measuring Earnings Surprises 170 Why Does It Matter Whether Momentum is Price or Earnings Based? 173 Hedge Funds and Momentum Strategies 174 Pricing or Earnings Momentum Are They Real and Do They Matter? 174 Chapter 17 Calendar Effects 177 January Effects 178 The Other January Effect 180 The Weekend Effect 181 Preholiday Effects 182 Sullivan, Timmermann, and White183 Conclusion 184 Part V Other Topics Chapter 18 The Equity Premium Puzzle 187 Mehra and Prescott (1985) 187 What about Loss Aversion? 190 Could This Be Survivor Bias? 191 Other Explanations 192 Are Equities Always the Best Portfolio for the Long Run? 193 Is The Equity Premium Resolved? 194 Chapter 19 Liquidity 195 A Securities Market is a Bid-Ask Market 196 Measuring Liquidity 197 Is Liquidity a Priced Risk for Common Stocks? 199 Significance of Liquidity Research 200 Chapter 20 Neuroeconomics 201 Capuchin Monkeys 201 Innateness Versus Culture 203 Decisions Are Made by the Brain 203 Decisions versus Outcomes 205 Neuraleconomic Modeling 206 More Complicated Models of Brain Activity 208 The Kagan Critique 208 Conclusion 209 Chapter 21 Experimental Economics 211 Bubble Experiments 212 Endowment Effect and Status Quo Bias 215 Calendar Effects 216 Conclusion 216 Conclusion: And The Winner Is? 217 The Semi-Strong Hypothesis Prices Accurately Summarize All Known Public Information 217 Can Prices Change if Information Doesn t Change? 219 Is the Law of One Price Valid? 220 Three Research Agendas 221 The Critics Hold the High Ground 223 What Have We Learned? 223 Where Do We Go From Here? (What Have We Not Learned?) 227 A Final Thought 230 Index 231 |
| Note |
400 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Shah, Sunit N.
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| ISBN |
9781118334102 (e-book) |
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9781118300190 (hbk.) |
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9781118334102 (ePDF) |
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9781118335215 (Mobi) |
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9781118331927 (ePub) |
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