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You heard the phrase "monetary illusion" describing the fact that people, when their income rises, sometimes forget to take into account the part of this rise...
Hi, Both an interesting observation and question ! Perhaps I can share a few thoughts, do let me know your views. The P/E Ratio of a company reflects the price...
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Dear all, Martin Sewell has very kindly offered to host a couple of my documents. The seven sins of fund management can be found at ... The information...
Greetings all, I have enjoyed following the forum, as I try to find a topic for my mba thesis. I have a website where I am trying to convey information and...
I think the monetary illusion is a myth of economists; people are not stupid, and are aware of their incomes and the prices they pay. I think this illusion...
(Since the following gets broken up, I've attached a Word file with unbroken text.) As primarily money managers, we developed this forecasting formula to...
Hello, First I want to say that I am pleased to have discovered such an animated forum on behavioral finance. I am currently trying to do some research...
I think that the following paper may be helpful to you. Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles (Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong) Journal of Political Economy...
Hello, I'd like to know the real effects of our (The USA) 725 billion dollar trade deficit. I keep hearing about this deficit growing. The first thing that...
I haven't looked closely at the US Record Trade Defecit (scary looking enough?) but I'm guessing that most of the increase is from higher oil prices. A...
... it appears to have been brought to my attention that the US doesn't include the long-term imprisoned among the long-termed unemployed, and that skewes the...
Rolf, The prison population in the U.S. is about 2 million. That number is too small to skew results. Plus, the methodology of determining the percent of ...
Dear Behavioral-Finance Subscribers, I'm a doctoral student at the University of Basel, Switzerland. As a side project to my dissertation, I am currently...
interesting topic....since bubbles and crashes have an opinion on the direction (Up & Down) they are difficult to define. I suggest take a look at volatility...
Dear all, in collaboration with AIFINC (the italian association of behavioral finance - http://www.finanzacomportamentale.it/) we developed a questionnaire on...
Hi friends; is there any Chinese friends that study in Chinese universities? I applicated the Chinese government's scholarships for Turkish researchers and if...
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To all: I am an investigator of accidents, explosions, and fires within large industrial facilities. Having done this for almost 30 years, it is frightening...
Welcome, Bob ! Good question ! I think there is a pendulum phenomena. There was a time when they did not care much about shareholders. Now they seem to care a...
It doesn't hurt that for many CEO's of public companies, that most of their compensation is in options that gain value with the rise in stock prices. ... From:...
It also could be perceived as a "confirmation bias" in that a rising stock price may make the CEO feel as if s/he is doing their job. Of course, when the stock...
It also could be perceived as a "confirmation bias" in that a rising stock price may make the CEO feel as if s/he is doing their job. Of course, when the stock...
To all: Here's another way of asking the question. Let's say I have $100,000 sitting in a bank at 3.00% interest. I hate the thought of getting so little...
To all: Thank you for responding. Allow me to rephrase my question via the following scenario: Let's suppose I own a company and wish to move into a new...
The value increases because that company should make more money now that it has cure for cancer. Stocks tend to discount the future. If the company will make...