Understanding behavioral finance /
Ackert, Lucy F.
Understanding behavioral finance / Lucy F. Ackert and Richard Deaves - India Cengage Learning 2011 - 348 p.
This comprehensive textideal for today's behavioral finance electivelinks finance theory and practice to human behavior. The book begins by building upon the established, conventional principles of finance before moving into psychological principles of behavioral finance, including heuristics and biases, overconfidence, emotion and social forces. Readers learn how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors and professional finance practitioners, managers and markets. The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. Readers utilize theory and applications in every chapter with a wide variety of end-of-chapter exercises, discussion questions, simulations and experiments that reinforce the book's applied approach.
9788131515440
Stock exchanges--Psychological aspects
Finance--Psychological aspects
Investments--Psychological aspects
332.6019 ACK-L
Understanding behavioral finance / Lucy F. Ackert and Richard Deaves - India Cengage Learning 2011 - 348 p.
This comprehensive textideal for today's behavioral finance electivelinks finance theory and practice to human behavior. The book begins by building upon the established, conventional principles of finance before moving into psychological principles of behavioral finance, including heuristics and biases, overconfidence, emotion and social forces. Readers learn how human behavior influences the decisions of individual investors and professional finance practitioners, managers and markets. The book clearly explains what behavioral finance indicates about observed market outcomes as well as how psychological biases potentially impact the behavior of managers. Readers utilize theory and applications in every chapter with a wide variety of end-of-chapter exercises, discussion questions, simulations and experiments that reinforce the book's applied approach.
9788131515440
Stock exchanges--Psychological aspects
Finance--Psychological aspects
Investments--Psychological aspects
332.6019 ACK-L