Been thinking about availability bias and how it affects stock returns. This isn't a new paper, but it is interesting nonetheless--An "oldie but goodie." http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=971202 [...]
Many of you may know that golfers often fall victim to mental "distractions" that severely inhibit the quality of their game. However, those "distractions" also [...]
Cortisol Shifts Financial Risk Preferences Kandasamy et al. A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check [...]
I'm new to the crew here, but I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Gabe Kates and I'm currently a student at Haverford College, [...]
The “anchoring bias” is firmly established in psychology circles, but a more recent area of focus within the field--social anchoring--is opening up some intriguing new [...]
Barron's has an interesting article discussing "The Trouble with Actively Managed ETFs." The article should have been titled "The Trouble with Non-Transparent Active ETFs." A [...]
Rituals Enhance Consumption Vohs, J., Y. Wang, F. Gino, and M. I. Norton. A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of [...]
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BBC has an article discussing the same research we highlighted almost a year ago: Her conclusion is that these biases are so deep rooted in [...]
Music to a value investor's ears: You shouldn't buy this stock at any price. Ben Graham advocated that we should always follow a cardinal rule [...]
It has been a long, cold winter on the East Coast. This has been very good for anyone long natural gas. Below is a chart, [...]
Many in the investing world feel that, when assessing securities for purchase, the more information that can be assembled, the better off the investor. In [...]
The latest edition of the CFA Institute Magazine has an interesting article on "Do Algorithms Dream of Electronic Clients?" They even managed to quote me as [...]
50 Years of Successful Predictive Modeling Should Be Enough: Lessons for Philosophy of Science Our aim in this paper is to bring the woefully neglected literature on [...]
Bill and Melinda Gates think it is possible: By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Check out the Gates [...]
Psychiatric diagnoses: A study of how they are made Kendell, R. E. British Journal of Psychiatry, 122, 437-445 An online version of the paper can [...]
How can one optimize performance and decision-making when one is affected by scarcity? This is the subject of Part 2 of our 2-part scarcity series. [...]
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/travel/southwest-wrong-airport The pilots of Southwest flight 4013 say that Branson Airport was correctly programmed into their on-board computer Sunday, but that they "mistakenly identified" another [...]
Marty Whitman makes a bold statement in his recent letter: “I am disappointed that a Nobel Prize was awarded to Eugene Fama, who studies only markets and [...]
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