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Behavioral Finance
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Description| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc (US) |
| Author(s) | Edwin Burton / Sunit Shah |
| Subtitle | Understanding the Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates |
| Edition | 1 |
| Published | 8th March 2013 |
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Understanding the Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates
An in-depth look into the various aspects of behavioralfinance
Behavioral finance applies systematic analysis to ideas that
have long floated around the world of trading and investing. Yet it
is important to realize that we are still at a very early stage of
research into this discipline and have much to learn. That is why
Edwin Burton has written Behavioral Finance: Understanding the
Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates.
Engaging and informative, this timely guide contains valuable
insights into various issues surrounding behavioral finance. Topics
addressed include noise trader theory and models, research into
psychological behavior pioneered by Daniel Kahneman and Amos
Tversky, and serial correlation patterns in stock price data. Along
the way, Burton shares his own views on behavioral finance in order
to shed some much-needed light on the subject.
- Discusses the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and its
history, and presents the background of the emergence of behavioral
finance - Examines Shleifer's model of noise trading and explores other
literature on the topic of noise trading - Covers issues associated with anomalies and details serial
correlation from the perspective of experts such as DeBondt and
Thaler - A companion Website contains supplementary material that allows
you to learn in a hands-on fashion long after closing the book
In order to achieve better investment results, we must first
overcome our behavioral finance biases. This book will put you in a
better position to do so.
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