Essays about: "irrational behavior of investors"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words irrational behavior of investors.

  1. 6. Investors´ Rationality : Behavioral Finance

    University essay from IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : David Wahlbeck; Carl Sandberg; Hannes Bernéus ; [2009]
    Keywords : Behavioral Finance; Behavioral Economics; Finance; Economic;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine if professional investors areindicating tendencies of irrational behavior when exposed to certainpsychological dilemmas related to the financial world. ... READ MORE

  3. 7. Behavioral Finance - And the Change of Investor Behavior during and After the Speculative Bubble At the End of the 1990s

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Malena Johnsson; Henrik Lindblom; Peter Platan; [2002]
    Keywords : Behavioral; Finance; Speculative; Bubble; Investor; Management of enterprises; Företagsledning; management; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The apparent high valuations in the aggregate market and the high price earnings ratios, experienced in the equity markets at the end of the 1990s, can be characterized as a so-called speculative bubble. The existence of such a phenomenon can in part be attributed to less-than-rational aspects of investor behavior and human judgment. READ MORE