The Journal of Behavioral Finance is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 journal that publishes research related to the field of behavioral finance

Behavioral finance

Behavioral economics and its related area of study, behavioral finance, use social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the economic decisions of individuals and institutions performing economic functions, including consumers, borrowers and investors, and their effects on market...

. It formerly published as The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets.

Contributors to the Journal of Behavioral Finance have included specialists in psychology and psychiatry, sociology, behavioral economics, and the financial markets. The journal's publisher says its audience includes professionals in the above disciplines, as well as those in "consumer behavior and marketing," and in "the multidisciplinary study of judgment and decision making."

Notable contributors to the journal include Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller

Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...

 of the Yale School of Management

Yale School of Management

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, Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith

Vernon L. Smith

Vernon Lomax Smith is professor of economics at Chapman University's Argyros School of Business and Economics and School of Law in Orange, California, a research scholar at George Mason University Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center, all in Arlington,...

, Richard L. Peterson

Richard L. Peterson

Richard L. Peterson is an American behavioral economist.He has spent his career at the intersection of psychology and money. From developing quantitative models to imaging the brains of investors, he has emerged as an expert in the psychology of financial decisions and the mining of sentiment in...

, Max Bazerman of Harvard University, Gunduz Caginalp

Gunduz Caginalp

Gunduz Caginalp is a Turkish mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1978...

, Robert Prechter

Robert Prechter

Robert R. Prechter, Jr. is an American author and stock market analyst, known for his financial forecasts using the Elliott wave principle. Prechter is an author and co-author of 14 books, and editor of 2 books , his book Conquer the Crash is a New York Times bestseller...

, and Aaron Lynch

Aaron Lynch

Aaron Lynch was an American writer, best known for his book Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society.-Biography:...

.

Professor Gunduz Caginalp

Gunduz Caginalp

Gunduz Caginalp is a Turkish mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1978...

 served as Editor from the last issue of Volume 1 (2000) through the first issue of Volume 6 (2005). Brian Bruce serves as the journal's current editor. Associate editors include professor Andrew Lo of the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

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, and professor John Schott of the Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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. The Journal of Behavioral Finance appears in the Prosource and EBSCO business/finance indexes, and in the American Economic Association's

American Economic Association

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 EconLit

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 index.

See also

• Behavioral finance
  Behavioral finance
  Behavioral economics and its related area of study, behavioral finance, use social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the economic decisions of individuals and institutions performing economic functions, including consumers, borrowers and investors, and their effects on market...
  
  
• Prospect theory
  Prospect theory
  Prospect theory is a theory that describes decisions between alternatives that involve risk i.e. where the probabilities of outcomes are known. The model is descriptive: it tries to model real-life choices, rather than optimal decisions.-Model:...
  
  
• Technical analysis
  Technical analysis
  In finance, technical analysis is security analysis discipline for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis incorporate technical analysis, which being an aspect of active management stands...
  
  
• List of cognitive biases
• Socionomics

External links

• Institute of Behavioral Finance