336 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
336 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This textbook is the first behavioral finance textbook aimed at an undergraduate audience and introduces the main concepts behind this burgeoning field and its potential to explain current real life situations arising in financial markets worldwide. It is therefore of particular relevance when read in the light of the credit crunch, the travails besetting large financial institutions, the... Read more
Part One: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance 1. Purpose and History 2. Main Tools 3. Perceptions Part Two: Utility 4. Risk and Uncertainty 5. Time 6. Social Preferences Part Three: Markets 7. Efficiency 8. Trade 9. Investment Part Four: Related Topics 10. Natural Experiments 11. Quantitative Behavioral Finance 12. Evolutionary Finance, Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, and Neuroeconomics
Biography
Erick Rengifo is the Founder Director of the Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Fordham University, the Bronx, New York.
Emanuela Trifan is Professor of Econometrics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
