
Market Insanity
A Brief Guide to Diagnosing the Madness in the Stock Market
Description
Key Features
- Provides detailed and accurate descriptions of the most relevant behavioral anomalies for finance
- Entertainingly written by a veteran consultant with 15+ years experience helping companies explain anomalous finance behavior in non-economic language
- Shows how educated finance professionals can use behavioral insights to help build finance solutions
- Addresses the implications for equity markets in deviations from rationality paradigms
- Draws on a vast range of literature in explaining anomalous behavior, including economic psychology, economic psychology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology and animal behavior
Readership
Upper division undergraduate and graduate finance, accounting or economic students studying tractable behavioral finance problems, and particularly those seeking preparatory reading for upcoming behavioral finance course. Practitioners, including investment managers, financial controllers and treasurers are likely to be interested
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Rational Fallacy
3. Bizarre Biases
4. Bad Behavior
5. Problematic Perception
6. Feeling Foolish
7. Mindful Measures
8. Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 138
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: March 6, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128131152
- eBook ISBN: 9780128131169
About the Author
Michael Taillard
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Don Fri Jan 12 2018
Great book!
This book is the most fun I've had with economics or neurology, ever!