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Behavioural Finance

Nicholas Barberis, Richard Thaler, "An Survey of Behavioural Finance", Chapter 18, Handbook of Economics and Finance

1.INTRODUCTION
De Bondt, Werner, and Richard Thaler (1995), “Financial Decision Making in Markets and Firms”, in Jarrow, Maksimovic, and Ziemba (eds.) Finance, Elsevier-North Holland.

Shiller, Robert (1984), “Stock Prices and Social Dynamics”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2, 457-498 [in Advances, Ch.7.]

2.LIMITS TO ARBITRAGE

a) Theory

Inefficient Markets, Ch. 2, 4.
DeLong, J. Bradford, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, and Robert Waldmann, "Noise
Trader Risk in Financial Markets", Journal of Political Economy 98, 703-738 [in Advances,
Ch.2, also covered in Inefficient Markets Ch.2.]
Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert Vishny (1997), “Limits of Arbitrage”, Journal of Finance 52, 35-55
[covered in Inefficient Markets Ch .4]
b) Evidence
Lamont, Owen (2000), “Guilty as Charged: Violations of the Law of One Price in Financial
Markets,” University of Chicago.
Lamont, Owen, and Richard Thaler (2000), “Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in
Tech Stock Carve-Outs,” Working Paper, University of Chicago.
Shleifer, Andrei (1986), “Do Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down?” Journal of Finance 41,
579-90.
*Wurgler, Jeff, and Katya Zhuravskaya (1999), “Does Arbitrage Flatten Demand Curves for
Stocks?”, Working Paper, Yale University.
3.EVIDENCE FROM PSYCHOLOGY
Camerer, Colin (1995), “Individual Decision Making”, in Kagel and Roth (eds.), Handbook of
Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press.
*Kahneman, Daniel, and Mark Riepe (1998), “Aspects of Investor Psychology”, Journal of
Portfolio Management 24, 52-65.
*Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky (1974), “Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and
Biases”, Science 185, 1124-31.
*Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky (1979), “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision
Under Risk”, Econometrica 47, 263-91.
Rabin, Matthew (1998), “Psychology and Economics”, Journal of Economic Literature, 11-46.
*Rabin, Matthew, and Richard Thaler (2000), “Risk Aversion,” forthcoming Journal of
Economic Perspectives.
Thaler, Richard (1999), “Mental Accounting Matters”, Working Paper, University of Chicago.
4.APPLICATION: CLOSED-END FUNDS
*Inefficient Markets, Ch. 3. [Also covered in Advances, Ch.3].
Pontiff, Jeff (1996), “Costly Arbitrage: Evidence from Closed-end funds”, Quarterly Journal of
Economics 111, 1135-52.
5.APPLICATION: THE AGGREGATE STOCK MARKET
a) Facts and Rational Approaches
Campbell, John Y. (1998), "Asset Prices, Consumption, and the Business Cycle", forthcoming in
Taylor and Woodford (eds.) Handbook of Macroeconomics, North-Holland.
*Campbell, John Y. and Robert J. Shiller (Winter 1998), "Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run
Stock Market Outlook", Journal of Portfolio Management.
Cochrane, John, “Where is the Market Going? Uncertain Facts and Novel Theories”, Economic
Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, November/December 1997.
Fama, Eugene F. and Kenneth R. French (1988), “Dividend Yields and Expected Stock Returns”,
Journal of Financial Economics 22, 3-25.
Mehra, Rajnish and Edward Prescott (1985), "The Equity Premium: A Puzzle", Journal of
Monetary Economics 15, 145-161.
*Shiller, Robert (1981), “Do Stock Prices Move too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes
in Dividends?”, American Economic Review 71, 421-436 [in Advances, Ch.4.]
b) Behavioral Approaches (equity premium puzzle)
*Barberis, Nicholas, Ming Huang, and Tano Santos (2001), “Prospect Theory and Asset Prices”,
forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
*Bernartzi, Shlomo, and Richard Thaler (1995), “Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium
Puzzle”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 110, 75-92.
Benartzi, Shlomo, and Richard Thaler (1999), “Risk Aversion or Myopia? Choices in Repeated
Gambles and Retirement Investments,” Management Science 45, 364-381.
Gneezy, Uri, and Jan Potters (1997), “An Experiment on Risk Taking and Evaluation Periods”,
Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 631-645.
Maenhout, Pascal (2000), “Robust Portfolio Rules and Asset Pricing”, working paper, Harvard
University.
Thaler, Richard, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, and Alan Schwartz (1997), “The Effect of
Myopia and Loss Aversion on Risk-Taking: An Experimental Test”, Quarterly Journal of
Economics 112, 647-661.
c) Behavioral Approaches (volatility puzzle)
Barksy, Robert, and Brad De Long (1992), “Why does the stock market fluctuate?”, Quarterly
Journal of Economics 107, 291-311.
Modigliani, Franco and Richard Cohn (1974), “Inflation and the Stock Market, Financial
Analysts Journal 35, 24-44.
Thaler, Richard, and Eric Johnson (1985), “Gambling with the House Money and Trying to
Break Even: The Effects of Prior Outcomes on Risky Choice”, Management Science 36, 643-
660.
6.APPLICATION: THE CROSS-SECTION OF AVERAGE RETURNS
a) Facts
Banz, Rolf (1981), “The Relation between Return and Market Value of Common Stocks”,
Journal of Financial Economics 9, 3-18.
*Bernard, Victor (1992), “Stock Price Reactions to Earnings Announcements”, in Thaler (ed.)
Advances in Behavioral Finance, ch.11.
Chopra, Navin, Josef Lakonishok, and Jay Ritter (1992), “Measuring Abnormal Performance: Do
stocks overreact?”, Journal of Financial Economics 31: 235-268 [in Advances, Ch.10]
Cochrane, John, “New Facts in Finance”, Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago, Third Quarter 1999.
*De Bondt, Werner, and Richard Thaler (1985), “Does the Stock Market Overreact?”, Journal of
Finance 40, 793-808 [in Advances, Ch.9.]
Fama, Eugene (1991), "Efficient Capital Markets: II", Journal of Finance 46, 1575-1618.
Fama, Eugene F. and Kenneth R. French (1992),"The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns",
Journal of Finance 47, 427-465.
Ikenberry, David, Josef Lakonishok, and Theo Vermaelen (1995), “Market Underreaction to
Open Market Share Repurchases”, Journal of Financial Economics 39, 181-208.
*Jegadeesh, Narasimhan and Sheridan Titman (1993), "Returns to Buying Winners and Selling
Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency", Journal of Finance 48, 65-91.
La Porta, Rafael (1996), “Expectations and the Cross-Section of Returns”, Journal of Finance
51, 1715-1742.
*Lakonishok, Josef, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny (1994), "Contrarian Investment,
Extrapolation, and Risk", Journal of Finance 49, 1541-1578.
La Porta, Rafael, Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny (1994), "Good News
for Value Stocks: Further Evidence on Market Efficiency”, Journal of Finance 49, 1541-1578.
Lakonishok, Josef and Seymour Smidt (1988), “Are Seasonal Anomalies Real? A Ninety Year
Perspective”, Review of Financial Studies 3, 257-280.
*Loughran, Tim, and Jay Ritter (1995), “The New Issues Puzzle”, Journal of Finance 50, 23-50.
Michaely, Roni, Richard Thaler, and Kent Womack, “Price Reactions to Dividend Initiations and
Omissions”, Journal of Finance 50, 573-608.
b) Rational Approaches
Daniel, Kent and Sheridan Titman (1997), "Evidence on the Characteristics of Cross-Sectional
Variation in Stock Returns", Journal of Finance 52, 1-33.
Fama, Eugene F. and Kenneth R. French (1993), “Common Risk Factors in the Returns of Bonds
and Stocks”, Journal of Financial Economics 33, 3-56.
Fama, Eugene F. and Kenneth R. French (1996), "Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing
Anomalies", Journal of Finance 51, 55-84.
c) Behavioral Approaches (Beliefs)
*Inefficient Markets, Ch. 6
*Barberis, Nicholas, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny (1998), "A Model of Investor
Sentiment", Journal of Financial Economics 49, 307-345 [in Inefficient Markets, Ch.5.]
*Daniel, Kent, David Hirshleifer, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (1998), “Investor Psychology
and Security Market Under- and Overreactions”, Journal of Finance 53, 1839-1885 [available on
Daniel’s web site at kent.kellogg.nwu.edu]
Daniel, Kent, David Hirshleifer, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (2001), “Covariance Risk,
Mispricing, and the Cross-section of Security Returns”, forthcoming Journal of Finance.
De Long, Brad, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence Summers, Michael Waldmann (1990), “Positive
Feedback Investment Strategies and Destabilizing Rational Speculation”, Journal of Finance 45,
375-395 [covered in Inefficient Markets, Ch.6]
Fama, Eugene F. (1998), "Market Efficiency, Long-Term Returns, and Behavioral Finance",
Journal of Financial Economics 49, 283-307.
*Hong, Harrison, and Jeremy Stein (1999), “A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum
Trading, and Overreaction in Asset Markets”, Journal of Finance 54, 2143-2184 [available on
Hong’s website at www-gsb.stanford.edu]
Hong, Harrison, Terence Lim, and Jeremy Stein (2000), “Bad News Travels Slowly: Size,
Analyst Coverage, and the Profitability of Momentum Strategies”, Journal of Finance 55, 265-
295.
d) Behavioral Approaches (Beliefs + Institutional Frictions)
Chen, Joseph, Harrison Hong, and Jeremy Stein (2000), “Breadth of Ownership and Stock
Returns”, working paper, Stanford University.
Hong, Harrison, and Jeremy Stein (1999), “Differences of Opinion, Rational Arbitrage, and
Market Crashes”, working paper, Stanford University.
Hong Harrison, Joseph Chen and Jeremy Stein (2001), “Forecasting Crashes: Trading Volume,
Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices”, forthcoming Journal of Financial
Economics.
Scherbina, Anna (2000), “Stock Prices and Differences of Opinion: Empirical Evidence that
Stock Prices Reflect Optimism”, working paper, Northwestern University.
e) Behavioral Approaches (Preferences)
*Barberis, Nicholas, and Ming Huang (2001), “Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and
Individual Stock Returns”, forthcoming, Journal of Finance [available on UC web site]
7.APPLICATION: INVESTOR BEHAVIOR
Barber, Brad, and Terrance Odean (2001), “Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and
Common Stock Investment,” forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Barber, Brad, and Terrance Odean (2000), “Online Investors: Do the Slow Die First?”, working
paper, UC-Davis.
Barber, Brad, Terrance Odean, and Lu Zheng (2000), “The Behavior of Mutual Fund Investors”,
working paper, UC-Davis.
Benartzi, Shlomo, and Richard Thaler (1998), “Naïve Diversification Strategies in Defined
Contribution Savings Plans”, working paper, UCLA.
Genesove, and Mayer (2001), “Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing
Market”, forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Grinblatt, Mark, and Matti Keloharju, “Distance, Language, and Culture Bias: The Role of
Investor Sophistication,” working paper, Yale University.
Heath, Chip, Steven Huddart and Mark Lang, “Psychological Factors and Stock Option
Exercises”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, 601-627.
Huberman, Gur, “Familiarity Breeds Investment”, working paper, Columbia University.
*Odean, Terrance (1998), “Are Investors Reluctant to Realize their Losses”, Journal of Finance
53, 1775-1798.
*Odean, Terrance (1998), “Do Investors Trade Too Much?” American Economic Review 89,
1279-1298 [available at Odean’s web site at www.ucdavis.edu]
8.APPLICATION: CORPORATE FINANCE
*Inefficient Markets, Ch.7.
*Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler (2000), “The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate
Stock Returns,” Journal of Finance 55, 2219-2257.
*Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler (2000), “Market Timing and Capital Structure”, working
paper, Yale University.
Blanchard, Olivier, Changyong Rhee, and Lawrence Summers (1993), “The Stock Market, Profit,
and Investment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Heaton, J.B., “Managerial Optimism and Corporate Finance”, working paper, University of
Chicago.
Lintner, John (1956), “Distribution of Incomes of Corporations among Dividends, Retained
Earnings and Taxes”, American Economic Review 46, 97-113.
*Miller, Merton (1986), “Behavioral Rationality in Finance: The Case of Dividends”, in Hogarth
and Reder (eds.) Rational Choice, University of Chicago Press.
Morck, Randall, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny (1993), “The Stock Market and Investment:
Is the Market a Sideshow?” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
*Roll, Richard (1986), “The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers,” Journal of Business
59, 197-216 [in Advances, Ch.17].
*Shefrin, Hersh and Meir Statman (1984), “Explaining Investor Preference for Cash Dividends”,
Journal of Financial Economics 13, 253-282 [in Advances, Ch.15].
*Stein, Jeremy (1996), “Rational Capital Budgeting in an Irrational World”, Journal of Business
69, 429-55.

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