When it comes to financial affairs, there are two schools of thought: Traditional financial theory and behavioral finance. Traditional financial theory assumes that people make decisions by gathering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Maurer covers how personal finance is more personal than finance. This article is more than 4 years old. The fields of ...

Investing in the financial markets is a complex endeavor influenced not only by economic factors and market dynamics but also by human behavior. Traditional finance theory assumes that investors make ...

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Investors do not ...

Managing money can be a complex and emotional endeavor when it involves our family funds, but when it comes to those of the businesses we run, it is even more complicated. One wrong move and the ...

Behavioral Finance is the application of psychology to finance and investing. It has produced deep insights into how investors think and behave as well as how financial markets behave. Learn more ...

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[1] In investing, this describes investors’ preference for dividends (the bird in the hand) relative to future price appreciation (two in the bush). While ...

As Shiller suggests, the financial crisis of 2008–2009 seems to have given a major boost to behavioral finance theory, and its advocates are not shy in declaring victory. “If the argument is that ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ljftx7/behavioral_finance) has announced the addition of John Wiley ...