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Investor behavior and impact on market prices / Comportement de l'investisseur et impact sur les prix du marché

Comportement de l'investisseur et impact sur les prix du marché. / Sir Isaac Newton, who is one of the most influential physicist and mathematician of all time, after he suffered huge losses in tulip market said: “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Financial markets are full of uncertainties. The movement and volatility in stock prices has been the focus of attention for scholars all the time. Over the last decades, financial markets gain influence both at people’s life and country’s economics as a result of technological advances, financial liberalization, and ongoing international trade. On one hand, participant’s property and investor’s market performance are impacted by price fluctuation. On the other hand, the development of national economic is closely interrelated to the stability of financial markets. In this effect, the understanding of investors’ designing making and how it affect the market price movement is of vital interest to both researchers and economic policy market. Experimental Finance has already become a well-established field, a fact that was recognized by the attribution of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Vernon Smith in 2002 who’s most significant work was concerned with market mechanisms and tests of different auction forms. However so far the major part of experimental work in Finance has considered (including Vernon Smith) human rationality and the ability of markets to find the proper price close to an equilibrium setting. [...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:theses.fr/2014PA010084
Date09 December 2014
CreatorsLiu, Yi-Fang
ContributorsParis 1, Université de Tianjin, Andersen, Jorgen-Vitting, Zhang, Wei
Source SetsDépôt national des thèses électroniques françaises
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text

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