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	Behavioral finance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Behavioral finance and behavioral economics are closely related fields which apply scientific research on human and social cognitive and emotional biases to better understand economic decisions and how they affect market prices, returns and the allocation of resources.
		Behavioral analyses are mostly concerned with the effects of market decisions, but also those of public choice, another source of economic decisions with some similar biases.
		Behavioral insights can be used to update neoclassical equations, and behavioral economists note that these revised models not only reach the same correct predictions as the traditional models, but also correctly predict outcomes where the traditional models failed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Behavioral_finance#Behavioral_economics_topics (1888 words)

	Station Information - Behavioral finance
		Behavioral finance applies scientific research on human cognitive bias to better understand economic decisions.
		Key observations made in behavioral finance include the lack of symmetry between decisions to acquire or keep resources, called colloquially the "bird in the bush" paradox, and the strong risk aversion or regret attached to any decision where some emotionally valued resources (e.g.
		A very specific version of behavioral finance, prospect theory, was first advanced by Amos Tversky and Kahneman in 1979.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/b/be/behavioral_finance.html (298 words)

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	Behavioral finance - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Behavioral finance as well as Behavioral economics applies scientific research on human and social cognitive and emotional biases (see cognitive bias) to better understand economic decisions.
		So behavioral finance / behavioral economics in some ways simply observes the same dynamics in play in economics.
		The methodology of behavioral economics / behavioral finances includes observations, games where participants engage in simulations of economic behaviour, such as investing, auctions, etc. In recent years, some research was done using fMRI to determine which areas of the brain are active during various steps of economic decision making.
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	Behavioral Finance Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Behavioral finance integrates ideas from the fields of individual and social psychology with classical financial theory to understand the performance of markets.
		Behavioral finance recognizes several deviations from rationality such as the use of heuristics, or rules of thumb; that framing or the way a problem is stated, can affect the decision made; and that biases exist.
		Behavioral finance represents a paradigm shift away from efficient market theory, which is still advocated by some prominent theorists, such as Eugene Fama.
	www.investorglossary.com /behavioral-finance.htm (223 words)

	Behavioral finance glossary: Behavioral, peter greenfinch
		Behavioral analysis is a set of techniques that use findings taken from behavioral finance (see that term) in order to estimate future stock prices or trends.
		Behavioral corporate finance (or corporate behavioral finance) is a still few developed as an area of Behavioral Finance studies.
		Behavioral public economics / finance (or public behavioral economics / finance) is a nascent field of research.
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	behavioral finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		behavioral finance Not least, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent market decline further demonstrated that financial markets often fail to behave as behavioral finance they would if trading were truly dominated by the fully rational investors who populate financial theories.
		Behavioral finance has made an indelible mark on areas from asset pricing to individual investor behavior to corporate behavioral finance finance, and continues to see exciting empirical and theoretical advances.
		The behavioral finance Institute of Behavioral Finance was established to study the impact of.
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	FPA Journal - Incorporating Behavioral Finance into Your Practice
		In applying behavioral finance research to client situations, practitioners must decide whether to attempt to change their clients' biased behavior or adapt to it.
		First, behavioral biases, as presently articulated, are not user-friendly because there is not a widely accepted "industry standard" methodology of identifying an individual investor's biases.
		The decision whether to moderate or adapt to a client's behavioral biases during the asset allocation process depends fundamentally on the type of behavioral bias the client exhibits.
	www.fpanet.org /journal/articles/2005_Issues/jfp0305-art7.cfm (2880 words)

	The Inside Edition: Understanding Behavioral Finance
		Behavioral finance researchers have catalogued a number of systematic errors that affect defined-contribution investment.
		Behavioral finance researchers have also found that people don’t rate gains and losses equally.
		A behavioral finance approach generally emphasizes automatic and default features that work to circumvent the inadequate saving tendencies of many plan participants.
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	Behavioral finance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Psychologists in this field such as, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman began to benchmark their cognitive models of decision making under risk and uncertainty against economic models of rational behavior.
		Key observations made the behavioral finance literature include the lack of symmetry between decisions to acquire or keep resources, called colloquially the "bird in the bush" paradox, and the strong loss aversion or attached to any decision where some emotionally valued resources (e.g.
		However, a distinction should be noted between and ; the former can be averaged out by the market, while the other can create feedback loops that drive the market further and further from the equilibrium of the "fair price".
	www.lemongrove.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Behavioural_economics (1577 words)

	Behavioral finance
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	Washington and Lee Law Review: Behavioral finance and investor governance
		Behavioral economics is emerging as an important new disciplinary adjunct to legal analysis.
		Behavioral economics revises the received wisdom that assumed the bounded but substantial rationality of human actors and prescribed legal rules and social norms according to sterile abstractions that bore little resemblance to actual human beings, but which could be modeled in elegant and simple ways.
		One corner of this behavioral orientation toward economics and law and the vast social domains those disciplines canvass examines the pricing of stocks in public capital markets.
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	Behavioral Corporate Finance Information Center: Preface
		The main goal of the book is to help students learn how to put the traditional tools of corporate finance to their best use, and mitigate the effects of psychological obstacles that reduce value.
		Behavioral traps represent one of the most important obstacles to the successful implementation of the skills taught in traditional corporate finance courses.
		At the same time, the coverage of behavioral issues in traditional texts has tended to be at best surface level, providing students with a behavioral flavor but not in-depth skills required to understand, to identify, and to deal with behavioral phenomena.
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	Behavioral Finance
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		A field known as "behavioral finance" has evolved that attempts to better...
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	Behavioral Finance
		With respect to individuals, we hypothesize that their decision about whether to participate in the stock market is influenced by social interaction: in our model, any given "social" investor finds the market more attractive when more of his peers participate.
		One implication of investor inertia is that it improves the terms for the acquiring firm in a stock-for-stock merger, since acquirer shares are placed in the hands of investors who, independent of their beliefs, do not resell these shares on the open market.
		Moreover, the results are strongest when the overlap in target and acquirer institutional ownership is low and when the demand curve for the acquirer's shares appears to be steep.
	www.nber.org /reporter/summer05/stein.html (2116 words)

	Amazon.ca: Behavioral Trading: Methods for Measuring Investor Confidence and Expectations: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Most reviewers of Woody Dorsey's recent book, "Behavioral Trading," will probably approach it from the viewpoint of one interested or involved in the stock market or, at least, evaluate it as a work within the field of economics or finance.
		The primary thrust of behavioral finance is to acknowledge the irrational aspects of investing.
		Behavioral traders need to be cognizant of the role that bias, propaganda or spin plays in the financial markets, and must be aware of the symbolic information in the marketplace and the media and incorporate this as part of their trading strategy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1587991640 (1879 words)

	People & Money - Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance
		Modern finance theory is probably the least behavioral of the various subdisciplines of economics.
		The interest of finance academics and practitioners in the human factor waned during the 1960s and the 1970s.
		To make progress, we need to better portray behavior in the usual domains of finance theory (e.g., portfolio selection and stock valuation) and to enrich the theory to incorporate new domains upon which finance has been silent.
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	Behavioural Finance
		The emerging science of behavioural finance says that investors are only human, and so prone to illogical thinking that leads them to overvalue some investments and undervalue others.
		The attraction of behavioural finance is that humans often depart from rationality in a consistent manner.
		Behavioural Finance is a blend of psychology and economics which concerns itself with individual and collective behaviour in financial situations.
	www.behaviouralfinance.net (2692 words)

	Investor Home - Psychology
		A field known as "behavioral finance" has evolved that attempts to better understand and explain how emotions and cognitive errors influence investors and the decision-making process.
		Professor Statman is an expert in the behavior known as the "fear of regret." People tend to feel sorrow and grief after having made an error in judgement.
		I do not dismiss the behavioral aspects that Joe [Lakonishok] and others have argued which is to say that there are all kinds of reasons from cognitive psychology that suggest that a real dog is likely to get underpriced, and maybe people know it's underpriced and they still don't want to hold it.
	www.investorhome.com /psych.htm (2155 words)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: The SEC and Behavioral Finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Larry Ribstein is skeptically blogging on the viability of behavioral finance as a justification for government information in capital markets.
		My take on all this is that behavioral finance explains a lot of observed investor behaviors that depart from the predictions of the rational choice model, but I share his skepticism as to whether you can tell a market failure story using behavioral finance that will justify extensive regulatory intervention.
		The paper concludes with a cautionary note against the potential for behavioral economics to be glibly invoked as a justification for government intervention.
	www.professorbainbridge.com /2005/07/the_sec_and_beh.html (415 words)

	Behavioral Finance
		Please keep in mind that the subjects of finance and risk are still relatively undeveloped.
		The lesson of LTCM is that despite the many advances we have witnessed in the field of finance, risks are still not easily quantifiable— and hopefully, this author has argued a good case of my own concept and perception of risk— as well as how we could take advantage of them from an investment standpoint.
		Behavioral psychologists note that investors who check their accounts often are more anxious and, ironically, bigger losers.
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	Taking A Chance On Behavioral Finance
		Behavior finance has also found that investors tend to place too much worth on judgments derived from small samples of data or from single sources.
		In practice, however, few if any value investors are deploying behavioral principles to sort out which cheap stocks actually offer returns that can be taken to the bank.
		Behavioral finance offers no investment miracles, but perhaps it can help investors train themselves how to be watchful of their out behavior and, in turn, avoid mistakes that will make them poorer.
	www.investopedia.com /articles/02/112502.asp (897 words)

	FEN Behavioral & Experimental Finance
		Behavioral and Experimental Finance publishes working and accepted paper abstracts covering all aspects of behavioral and experimental finance.
		The journal provides promising new research to the academic and the Wall Street communities that incorporates the methods used in the behavioral disciplines and decision sciences with the ones from Standard Finance, so that decision makers and their judgments can be studied from individual, group, organizational, and market perspectives.
		For instance, the origins of behavioral finance have a strong theoretical foundation in the fields of experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics.
	www.ssrn.com /update/fen/fen_behav-exper-fin.html (325 words)

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