Behavioral Finance
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Study of various phsycological factors that can affect financial market.

behavioral finance

5 main concepts of behavioral finance

mental accounting ; herd behavior ; emotional gap ; anchoring ; self-attribution

The propensity for people to allocate money for specific purposes.

mental accounting

States that people tend to mimic the financial behaviors of the majority of the ___.

<p>herd behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

Refers to decision making based on extreme emotions or emotional strains such as anxiety, anger, fear, or excitement.

<p>emotional gap</p> Signup and view all the answers

Refers to attaching a spending level to a certain reference. Occurs when people rely too much on pre-existing information or the first information they find when making decisions.

<p>anchoring</p> Signup and view all the answers

Refers to a tendency to make choices based on overconfidence in one's own knowledge or skill.

<p>self-attribution</p> Signup and view all the answers

When investors have a bias toward accepting information that confirms their already-held belief in an investment.

<p>confirmation bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

When investors' memory of recent events make them biased or leads them to believe that the event is far more likely to occur again.

<p>experiential bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

When investors place a greater weighting on the concern for losses than the pleasure from market gains.

<p>loss aversion</p> Signup and view all the answers

When investors tend to invest in what they know, such as domestic companies of locally owned investment.

<p>familiarity bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

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