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Goodness,therearemoretopicsinthatfieldthanyoucancount!
Ideas(offthetopofmyhead):
Whatdoesmarketefficiencylooklikefromabehavioralperspective?Obviously
marketsaregenerallyrational,otherwisestockmovementswouldbemorerandom.So
howdoweaccountforthegeneralrationalityfromtheperspectivesofbehaviorists?I
thinkShefrinandStatmanwillbeyourbeststartingpoint.Specificallytheirpaper:
BehavioralCapitalAssetPricingTheory.
Howandwhydobubblesform?Canyougenerateanexperimentwhichcouldcontrol
forvariablesandcreatepricingbubbles?(e.g.informationasymmetry,volume
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24/03/2016 (13)I'mactivelylookingforatopicformymaster'sthesis(finaldissertation)relatedtobehavioralfinancebutIhavenocluewheretostartorhowto
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Ifyouarestillinterestedindoingsomethingrelatedtohedgefund,youcouldmaybelook
intowhythecharacteristicsofahedgefundisattractivefromabehavioralperspective.
Thereshouldbeanswerstofindinprospecttheory,andlossaversion,asforwhatIcan
thinkofnow.You'llprobablyneedtocomeupwithsomeabitmoreadvancedthanthat
foramasterthesis,maybeconductanownstudy/surveytotrytosupportit.
Otherareasthatareinterestingwhereyoucouldactuallybringsomenoveltyistolookinto
socialpsychologyorevolutionarypsychologyandtrytotiethattosomeambiguityinthe
financialmarkets.
Areyoufamiliarwithvoxpopuliwisdomofcrowds,andFrancisGalton'sstudyata
countryfairin1906?OtherwisecheckthisonWikipedia:Wisdomofthecrowd ,there
alsoseemstobyalaterbookwrittenonthesubjectbySurowiecki(Wikipedia:TheWisdom
ofCrowds )thatIhaven'treadhowever.MyhypothesisIwouldtestisthatwithina
certainfield,thisdoesn'tapplybecauseoneofthefundamentalassumptionsisthatthe
guessesshouldbeindependent.Todayit'shardtofindreallyindependentguessessince
peopleusuallywatch/readthesamenews.Financialprofessionalsusethesame
Bloomberg,ThomsonReuters,orFactSetterminals(I'msurethereareotherpopular
outsideequityanalysis).Thestockmarketsdoesn'tseemtobehavefullyrationaleither,
withrepricing,i.e.revaluatingthestockseveryday?
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