Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II, 9780691121758
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Offers an overview of developments in behavioral finance. This volume presents twenty papers by leading specialists that illustrate the abiding power of behavioral finance - of how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwi…

Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II

  • Paperback

    744 pages

  • Release Date

    3 October 2005

Summary

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance–an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, “entertains the possibility that some of the agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time.” Much has changed since then. Not least, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent market decline furt…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691121758
ISBN-10:0691121753
Series:The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics
Author:Richard H. Thaler
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:744
Release Date:3 October 2005
Weight:992g
Dimensions:235mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“This is an excellent and useful book which should be recommended to all students of finance.”– Peter Howells, Economic Issues

“This is an excellent and useful book which should be recommended to all students of finance.”–Peter Howells, Economic Issues

About The Author

Richard H. Thaler

Richard H. Thaler, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His books include Quasi-Rational Economics (Russell Sage Foundation) and The Winner’s Curse (Princeton). He is also the editor of the forerunner to the present volume, Advances in Behavioral Finance (Russell Sage Foundation).

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