Financial markets aren’t filled with perfectly rational actors. Even professional investors, who make their living conducting investment research, see a persistent gap between real and reported ...

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Behavioral finance, a field that blends psychology with economic decision-making, provides profound insights into the complexities of human behavior in the financial realm. I have been interested in ...

Behavioral finance is the study of how psychology affects investor behavior and financial markets. The study of behavioral finance relies on the assumption that investors and other financial ...

Modern portfolio theory (MPT) and behavioral finance represent differing schools of thought that attempt to explain investor behavior. Perhaps the easiest way to think about their arguments and ...

Fama is captain of Team Efficient Markets and Thaler is captain of Team Behavioral Finance. Each represents conflicting academic market philosophies that have been warring for years. Market efficiency ...