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e. Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological and cognitive factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by traditional economic theory. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Behavioral economics is primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic agents.
Quantitative behavioral finance[ 1 ] is a new discipline that uses mathematical and statistical methodology to understand behavioral biases in conjunction with valuation. The research can be grouped into the following areas: Empirical studies that demonstrate significant deviations from classical theories. [ 2 ]
Richard H. Thaler (/ ˈθeɪlər /; [ 1 ] born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association. [ 2 ]
Prospect theory. Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work developing prospect theory. Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. [1] The theory was cited in the decision to award Kahneman the 2002 Nobel ...
According to Choosing Therapy, “… financial trauma refers to the distress associated with chronic money-related stress, lack of resources, or financial abuse. These difficulties can overwhelm ...
Endowment effect. In psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect, also known as divestiture aversion, is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it. [1][2][3][4] The endowment theory can be defined as "an application of prospect theory positing that ...
The researchers coined the term "disposition effect" to describe this tendency of holding on to losing stocks too long and to sell off well-performing stocks too readily. Shefrin colloquially described this as a "predisposition toward get-evenitis." John R. Nofsinger has called this sort of investment behavior as a product of the desire to ...
Naive diversification. Naïve diversification is a choice heuristic (also known as "diversification heuristic" [1]). Essentially, when asked to make several choices at once, people tend to diversify more than when making the same type of decision sequentially. Its first demonstration was made by Itamar Simonson in marketing in the context of ...