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Emotions, Bayesian Inference, and Financial Decision Making

Salzman, Diego ; Trifan, Emanuela (2008)
Emotions, Bayesian Inference, and Financial Decision Making.
Report, Erstveröffentlichung

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

This paper presents a model in which rational and emotional investors are compelled to make decisions under uncertainty in order to ensure their survival. Using a neurofinancial setting, we show that, when different investor types fight for market capital, emotional traders tend not only to influence prices but also to have a much more developed adaptive mechanism than their rational peers, in spite of their apparently simplistic demand strategy and distorted revision of beliefs. Our results imply that prices in financial markets could be seen more accurately as a thermometer of the market mood and emotions rather than as simple informative signals as stated in traditional financial theory.

Typ des Eintrags: Report
Erschienen: 2008
Autor(en): Salzman, Diego ; Trifan, Emanuela
Art des Eintrags: Erstveröffentlichung
Titel: Emotions, Bayesian Inference, and Financial Decision Making
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2008
Ort: Darmstadt
Reihe: Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics
Band einer Reihe: 166
URL / URN: http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/4766
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

This paper presents a model in which rational and emotional investors are compelled to make decisions under uncertainty in order to ensure their survival. Using a neurofinancial setting, we show that, when different investor types fight for market capital, emotional traders tend not only to influence prices but also to have a much more developed adaptive mechanism than their rational peers, in spite of their apparently simplistic demand strategy and distorted revision of beliefs. Our results imply that prices in financial markets could be seen more accurately as a thermometer of the market mood and emotions rather than as simple informative signals as stated in traditional financial theory.

Freie Schlagworte: Judgement under uncertainty, Bayesian Inference, Behavioral Finance, Decision Making, Emotions
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-47665
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JEL classification: G1; Erstellt März 2006

Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 01 Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
01 Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete
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