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Behavioral finance

German: Behavioral Finance

Research into how psychological factors and mental errors influence investment decisions.

Foundational work came from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose prospect theory (1979) showed that people value gains and losses asymmetrically. Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in 2002, Richard Thaler in 2017. Key phenomena include loss aversion, the disposition effect, overconfidence, anchoring and herding.