... now at $400 a share. Should you realize your net gain by selling half of your Google stock and paying off your bill? Or should you sell off that Ford...
[ source: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9433782 ] Money isn't everything Jul 5th 2007 From The Economist print edition Men with a lot of...
Thanks Martin That raises a fundamental puzzle about rationality. What is it exactly? Can we safely define what is "rational" or "irrational"? Certainly to...
Hi, dear members and visitors! I'm glad to send you our group's 86th month newsletter. Just one day before the 07.07.07 numerology superstition strikes markets...
A member of this forum brought up a great point - participants do not follow expected utility. I would completely agree with his post - most investors do not...
Every day the market goes up or down Every day some commodity, currency, stock goes up or down more than others. Often the reasons are obscure. The move is...
... Peter, Perhaps you would settle for a true story instead of an invention. I have a wealthy friend, let's call him Cosmo, who is unschooled in investing....
I was amused by the article when I read it. One of the questions I have when I read of economic experiments is the context - how realistic (relevant to what we...
*grins* Actually, it is not difficult to imagine all kinds of reasons to explain for a market or stock movement. Think of astrologers and horoscopes where...
Oops! I should have added that some security analysts have sometimes significant influence too, as well as some newsletter writers and corporate CEOs. ... ...
... till ... could ... pleased, ... The best person to contact is Dr. Janice Dorn. I get her mail list. Never saw anything like it. She just put article in...
what happened ? long time , no message ! i have got a new research about effects of rising prices ( in a group of goods ) in inflation and i think that its...
Seems to me that the beauty contest applies (sometimes) to expected inflation-linked behaviors. But another behavioral phenomenon might moderate this ...
I'm curious about the role of psychology in inflation rates and how that interacts with volatile economics and energy costs. Jan ... research ... inflation ......
... the ... I ... mag. ... Thank you both very much for the answers. I found the page of Dr. Dorn and wrote her a mail... and the google.scholar is great. ...
Thanks peter , it's a good point ! "I think also that behaviors differ notably when inflation is low, just a few percent a year (here the monetary illusion (...
Dear colleagues, friends and members of the group, We have just finished the first coprehensive study in the area of corporate name changes and stock market...
Panagioti, Congratulations very interesting paper. Hirsch in the Stock Traders Almanac has also dealt with corporate hubris (building excessively large...
Hi. I'd like to propose that we put our collective wisdom and opinions to discussing the real world question of: in light of current global economics, and...
Hi Robert. The 64 k euros question, insn't it? If I try to put it under the BF light, can I "frame" it as: "What is going to be the next bubble?" Seems that...
Hi Peter. Nice to hear from you. Phrasing it as "a dusty corner of bubbleland" is a bit of a spin on what I'm trying to get the group mind's view of. I think...
Hi Robert, You may want to be aware that Behavioural Finance is a specialised discipline in academia. Some of the members here are researchers at university,...
I agree that natural resources can still be good investments. But I have observed that when oil prices surged in the past years, oil stocks tend to lag well ...
Hi KC, You are right saying that oil stocks lag oil prices sometimes, but it is particularly true when we have any problem related to supply, so the long term...
I hear about regression to the mean on prices---but I've never seen it with real estate over the long haul. The price your parents paid for the house you were ...
Sorry, I might use the wrong concept, you can see it as a variance back to historical standards. I mean the annualized rate of price increase. ... From:...
