50 Psychological Experiments for Investors by Mickael Mangot
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Overview: Saving well is anything but an intuitive process. One must be capable of deciding how much to save each month and in what instruments to invest those savings. These are the basic decisions which determine the wealth of the individual, household, or family in the long-term. Reactions, either instinctive or bred by personal experience, do not always provide the golden rule for navigating the tricky waters of financial decisions. Arguments which seem to be a matter of common sense may in fact be folly. Emotions can lead to confused decisions or prevent wise choices. In the end, unconscious imitation and social comparison encourage the duplication of plans whose efficiency is far from sure.
But all is not necessarily lost. A confrontation of the opposing points of view of economics and psychology has given birth to a new area of research, called behavioral economics, which elucidates how people in the real world make their economic decisions. This dynamic new discipline was endorsed by the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economics to one of the discipline’s originators, Daniel Kahneman. Since its beginnings in the 1980s, it has highlighted clear differences between the economic and financial behavior of real individuals and what they would do if they were completely rational. An impressive volume of studies conducted worldwide now draws a clear picture of the investor and the personal faults that prevent him from performing.
In this book, a little over 50 experiments run by scientists on different psychological factors affecting investment decisions are presented. The most important questions are treated: allocation of income to savings, planning for retirement, choice between assets, selection of mutual funds, appetite for real estate, hesitancy to invest in stocks, gender differences, and so on. Mentioned too are anecdotal aspects of the problem, such as the Monday blues which take hold of the grumpy and overcautious side of the investor at the start of the week. These 50-odd experiments allow a better understanding of our financial decisions. They offer information both for investing wisely and for knowing ourselves better.
Genre: Non Fiction, Business
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