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Finance and the Behavioral Prospect: Risk, Exuberance, and Abnormal Markets

Finance and the Behavioral Prospect: Risk, Exuberance, and Abnormal Markets

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Series: Quantitative Perspectives on Behavioral Economics and Financ

Business GeneralInvesting & Finance

ISBN10: 3319327100
ISBN13: 9783319327105
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 12 2016
Pages: 343
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum, irrational exuberance, and speculative bubbles. Behavioral accounting undermines the rational premises of mathematical finance. Assets and portfolios are imbued with affect. Positive and negative emotions warp investment decisions. Whether hedging against intertemporal changes in their ability to bear risk or climbing a psychological hierarchy of needs, investors arrange their portfolios and financial affairs according to emotions and perceptions. Risk aversion and life-cycle theories of consumption provide possible solutions to the equity premium puzzle, an iconic financial mystery. Prospect theory has questioned the cogency of the efficient capital markets hypothesis. Behavioral portfolio theory arises from a psychological account of security, potential, and aspiration.

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