Chapter 20 Human behavior and the efficiency of the financial system

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART C, 1999, Pages 1305-1340

  Shiller, Robert J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anchoring; anomalies in finance; attention anomalies; culture and social contagion; efficient markets; excess volatility; gambling behavior and speculation; global culture; irrelevance of history; magical thinking; mental compartments; overconfidence; overreaction; prospect theory; quasi magical thinking; random walk; regret and cognitive dissonance; representativeness heuristic; stock market; the availability heuristic; the disjunction effect; underreaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956734433     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10033-8     Document Type: Review

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