Behavioral finance as an answer to the limitations of standard finance

The End of Behavioral Finance

n 1985, Werner De Bondt and I published an article that asked the question: “Does the stock market overreact?” The article was controversial because it gave evidence to support the hypothesis that a cognitive bias (investor overreaction to a long series of bad news) could produce predictable mispricing of stocks traded on the NYSE. Although this idea was hardly shocking to practitioners, the co...

An introduction to the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Behavioral Finance Models and Behavioral Biases in Stock Price Forecasting

Stock market is affected by news and information. If the stock market is not efficient, the reaction of stock price to news and information will place the stock market in overreaction and under-reaction states. Many models have been already presented by using different tools and techniques to forecast the stock market behavior. In this study, the reaction of stock price in the stock market was ...

From Efficient Markets Theory to Behavioral Finance

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From Efficient Market Theory to Behavioral Finance

The efficient markets theory reached the height of its dominance in academic circles around the 1970s. Faith in this theory was eroded by a succession of discoveries of anomalies, many in the 1980s, and of evidence of excess volatility of returns. Finance literature in this decade and after suggests a more nuanced view of the value of the efficient markets theory, and, starting in the 1990s, a ...