RETRACTED CHAPTER: Behavioral Finance: An Introduction of Herd Effect - Take the Dotcom Bubble in 2000s as an Example
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-142-5_25How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Herd mentality; incomplete information; speculation
- Abstract
This essay introduces the formation of behavioral finance, which considers psychological factors on investor’s behaviors to explain anomalies in the traditional finance. Using the first market bubble — tulip mania in 17 century as an example to see how irrational behavior affects the stock market. The essay studies the herd effect, which was the main reason causing the market to collapse, in behavioral finance. It explains the origin and three reasons: incomplete information, reputation and speculation which forms the herd mentality. It focuses on how herd mentality affects investors’ decision making in the stock market. Then using the dot com bubble in 2000s as the main example to further find out the real impact of herd effect on investors’ purchasing craze leading to market bubbles. It has also mentioned the cryptocurrency bubble in recent days which indicates that the market bubble is likely to be repeated in the future.
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TY - CONF AU - Yudie Xu PY - 2023 DA - 2023/05/15 TI - RETRACTED CHAPTER: Behavioral Finance: An Introduction of Herd Effect - Take the Dotcom Bubble in 2000s as an Example BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 216 EP - 224 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-142-5_25 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-142-5_25 ID - Xu2023 ER -