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Recent Posts Tagged With 'behavioral finance'
The Role of Anticipated Emotions in the Endowment Effect
What happens when you anticipate negative feelings in decision making? Click Here To Read: The Role of Anticipated Emotions in the Endowment Effect Abstract (Via Ying Zhang and Ayelet Fishbach UC) This research explored the role of anticipated negati...
How behavioral economics can help change the fight against poverty.
“So what if we created savings products that had the disciplinary features of debt? This is the challenge that policymakers, donors, and foundations will have to wrestle with.” Click Here To Read: How behavioral economics can help change ...
Good Policies For Bad Governments: Behavioral Political Economy
Here’s a a series of counter arguments to the “libertarian paternalism” promoted by Thaler, etc. Hopefully this will result in a more balanced view of behavioral economics (given that I tend to favor behavioral economics and often f...
George Akerlof: BEHAVIORAL MACROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
That’s right this lecture is given by George Akerlof the co author of Animal Spirits.This is a must read for students of economics . Click Here To Read: Behavioral Macroeconomics & Macro Economic Behavior Introduction (Via Akerlof Lecture) ...
The Economics of Immediate Gratification
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Behavioral Finance and Investor Governance
Yes this is the same Lawrence Cunningham one of my favorite collection(s) “The Essays Of Warren Buffett”. Click Here To Read Behavioral Finance & Investor Governance Abstract (Via SSRN) The efficient market hypothesis is a special ca...
Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices
Click Here To Read Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices Abstract (via Yale) We study the asset pricing implications of Tversky and Kahneman’s (1992) cumulative prospect theory, with a particular focus o...
Video: Countering Effects of Confirmation Bias
One of our favorite blogs, The Rational Walk, has linked to a video of Jason Zweig on the Confirmation Bias. (Visit Rational Walk & Give Ravi a H/T) ...
Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
“We find that lower cognitive ability is associated with greater risk aversion, and more pronounced impatience” Click Here To Read: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? Abstract (Via Unimaas) This paper investiga...
Goals-based Investing: Integrating Traditional and Behavioral Finance by Dan Nevins
Pretty interesting stuff….. take a look my fellow investors. Happy Halloween! Click Here To Read About Goals-based Investing: Integrating Traditional and Behavioral Finance Executive Summary (Via Alden -International) This article examines opp...
Outcome Bias In Decision Evaluation
This summarizes it, “A judge who does not know the decision-maker’s probabilities may assume that the probability was higher for an outcome that occurred than for the same outcome, had it not occurred.” Click Here To Learn About Out...
Super Economist & Researcher Andrew Lo & The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis
Many of you have written asking about Andrew Lo and his Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. Here are two papers that spell it out. Andrew Lo is essentially bridging the gap between behavioral finance & the efficient market hypothesis. Are we expanding t...
Video Series: Nightly Business Report - Your Mind Your Money A Series On Behavioral Finance
Today I had the fortune of speaking with Jack Kahn producer of Nightly Business Report’s latest series “Your Mind Your Money“. I was honored to learn that Nightly Business Report used SimoleonSense to research the field of Behav...
Video: Nightly Business Report Interviews Richard Thaler
Our friend(s)d Dan Grech & Jack Kahn have put together a fascinating series on NPR called Your Mind & Your Money… you will hear about this series in our next post! In the meantime watch a sample below. Introduction (Via NBR) NBR’...
Free Course: CFA Institute On Behavioral Finance & “Regulating Financial Markets: Protecting Us from Ourselves and Others”
I found this while poking around the CFA institute website. Click Here To Access An Excellent Free Course On Behavioral Finance, & Regulating Financial Markets Introduction (Via CFA Institute) In this seminar, recorded on 13 October 2009, profess...
Do people really believe they are above average?
Another piece by super researcher, Gilovich - author of Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes. Click Here To Read: Do people really believe they are above average? Abstract (Via Booth) A question that has plagued self-enhancement research is whe...
