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Human Behavior and the Efficiency of the Financial System

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  • Robert J. Shiller

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Recent literature in empirical finance is surveyed in its relation to underlying behavioral principles, principles which come primarily from psychology, sociology and anthropology. The behavioral principles discussed are: prospect theory, regret and cognitive dissonance mental compartments, overconfidence, over- and underreaction, representativeness heuristic disjunction effect, gambling behavior and speculation, perceived irrelevance of history thinking, quasi-magical thinking, attention anomalies, the availability heuristic contagion, and global culture.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 6375.

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