Behavioral Finance

A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing. Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.

Whether you're mired in loss aversion, suffer from anchoring bias, or you're sorting your portfolio into various mental accounts, investor biases will prevent you from maximizing your wealth. But you can learn to challenge your own biases and prevent costly investment errors! In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, veteran investor and advisor Michael M. Pompian delivers a thorough grounding in the most important investor biases you're likely to encounter when making crucial investment decisions.

In The Behavioral Investor, psychologist and asset manager Dr. Daniel Crosby examines the sociological, neurological, and psychological factors that influence our investment decisions and sets forth practical solutions for improving both returns and behavior. Listeners will be treated to the most comprehensive examination of investor behavior to date and will leave with concrete solutions for refining decision-making processes, increasing self-awareness, and constraining the fatal flaws to which most investors are prone.

According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a decision to purchase, the rational consumer would not buy something on the spur of the moment, or on the recommendation of a friend. Sound realistic?

A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, tracing the fateful decisions that created this crisis—and outlines new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.

“Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea.

All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce poverty, and increase national security. In this book, Cass R. Sunstein, breaks new ground with a deep yet highly listenable investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, choice architecture and mandates, addressing such issues as welfare, autonomy, self-government, dignity, manipulation and the constraints and responsibilities of an ethical state.

In "Psychologie für Anfänger" tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der menschlichen Psyche – von den Grundlagen bis zu den aktuellen Entwicklungen. Verständlich und spannend erklärt, bietet dieses Buch einen inspirierenden Einblick in die Wissenschaft von Verhalten und Denkprozessen. Entdecken Sie die Grundlagen der Psychologie und verstehen Sie, was uns antreibt, wie wir denken und warum wir handeln, wie wir es tun. Von den Anfängen bis zu den neuesten Erkenntnissen nehmen Sie eine fesselnde Reise durch die Geschichte und Entwicklung dieser faszinierenden Disziplin.

Der größte Feind des Traders ist die Angst. Wer Angst hat, verliert. Und beim Traden heißt das bares Geld. Finanzpsychologe, Mentaltrainer und Trader Norman Welz erklärt, was Angst im Tradingalltag anrichtet. Vor allem aber demonstriert er, wie sie sich beherrschen lässt. Er begleitet den Leser in seiner Entwicklung als Trader und zeigt viele praktische Wege auf, wie man Angst und Stress in den Griff bekommt, ausgeglichen wird und lernt, sich zu konzentrieren. So ist Börsenerfolg in Zukunft kein Zufallsprodukt einer positiven oder negativen Grundstimmung oder der persönlichen Disposition, sondern eine Folge kontrollierten Tradens.

行为经济学堪称真正的“经世之学”，它与我们的现实生活息息相通。投资、理财、购物，甚至人生规划、政策制定都要用到它……行為經濟學堪稱真正的「經世之學」，它與我們的現實生活息息相通。投資、理財、購物，甚至人生規劃、政策制定都要用到它……