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* Accumulation / Distribution * Active / passive investing * Adaptation / Adaptable / Adaptive (system, economics, market) * Addiction * (under / slow) Adjustment * Administration / administrative behavior * Affect, affect heuristic * (principal-) Agent / Agency theory * Agent-based model * Algorithmic trading * Alpha coefficient (excess / insufficient return) * Alternation (of trends) * Altruism * Ambiguity aversion, ambiguity premium * (mental) Anchor / Anchoring * (market) Anomaly * Anticipation * APT * ARCH / GARCH models * Arbitrage opportunity (absence of / limited) * Arbitrage pricing theory (APT) * Archetype (stock, trader) * Aristotle's bias * Artificial Intelligence (AI) * Asymmetry / skew * Attachment bias * Attention anomaly, bias, disorder * (common) Attitude * Attractor * Attribution bias / error * Automaticity, autopilot bias * Availability bias, availability heuristics * (disappointment, loss, risk, regret, uncertainty... ) Averse, Aversion * Aversion, disposition and prospects
* BA * Bandwagon effect * BAPM * Base rate fallacy / neglect * Bayes, Bayesian probabilities, learning * Bear / bearish / bearishness * Beauty contest * (human) Behavior * Behavioral analysis (BA - BFA) * Behavioral asset pricing model (BAPM) * Behavioral biases in finance / economics / management * Behavioral corporate management * Behavioral economics * Behavioral finance (BF) * Behavioral financial analysis (BA - BFA) * Behavioral parameters * Behavioral portfolio theory (BPT) * Behavioral pricing * Behavioral public economics / finance * Behavioral stock pricing model (BSPM), Behavioral valuation * Behavioralist * (common) Belief * Benchmark game * Bet, betting odds * Beta coefficient * BF * Bias / Biases * Bias for action * (critical) Bifurcation * Binary logic * (economic, financial) Boom, Boom & Bust * Bounded rationality * Boredom (as a motivation to act) * Brain (circuits, wiring, areas...) * (speculative) Bubble / Crash * Bull / bullish / bullishness * Buy and hold * Buzz
* Calendar effect * Capitulation * CAPM / Capital Assets Pricing Model * (Information) Cascade, cascading * Certainty effect * Chart, Chartism, Chartist * Chaos theory / chaos-determinist walk< * Cheating * Choice * Closed-end fund discount * (price, volatility) Cluster / Clustering * Cluster illusion * Cobweb effect * Cognition * Cognitive asymmetry * Cognitive bias / distortion / flaw * Cognitive consonance / dissonance * Cognitive manipulation * Cognitive psychology * Cognitive trap * Cognitive overload * Collective bias / cognition / psychology * Collusion * Commitment effect * Common Belief /Convention / Knowledge / Paradigm * Common Good * Compartmentalization * Competence effect (aka illusion of competence) * Competition - cooperation * Complacency * Complex system, Complexity theory * Compulsion / ive * Computer-driven trading * Confidence * (pressure to) Conform, Conformity * Confirmatory / confirmation bias * (mental) Confusion * Congestion * Consensus * Conservatism bias * Consolidation * Conspiracy theory * Consumer (behavior, choice, preference) * (thought) Contagion * Contrarian / contrarianism * (illusion of) Control * Conventional wisdom * Corporate behavioral finance, corporate governance * Cost averaging * (speculative) Crash / Bubble * Craze * Critical point / threshold / mass /coupling / temperature / cluster, etc. * Crowd behavior * Cult companies * Cultural bias, culture, market culture * Curse of knowledge * Cycle / cycle-trend
* Debiasing * De-learning * Debt averse / aversion * Deception (in financial markets) * Decision, decision-making * Default decision preference * Deification / demonization * Delaying tactics * (Self-) Delusion * Denial (of realities) * Diffusion (of information) * Disappointment aversion * (investment) Discipline * Disequilibrium * Disinformation * Disposition effect * (trend) Disruption * Dissemination (of information) * (price, return, market) Distortion * (statistical) Distribution curve anomalies * Distribution / Accumulation phase * Divestiture aversion * Dividend puzzle * Dominant mental interest * Domino effect * Doubt * Dot-com / dotcom bubble / craze * Drive * Dynamical systems
* Economic behavior * Economic man * (market) Effect * Efficiency, (in)efficiency (economic, technical) * Efficient market hypothesis * Efficient (market, price) * (primacy of the) Ego * (return, price) Elasticity * EMH * Emergence * Emotion, emotional * Emotional bias * Emotional intelligence / literacy / reasoning * Empathy * Endowment effect * Entrepreneur psychology and behavior, Entrepreneurship * Endowment effect * Envy * Epidemic * (dynamical) Equilibrium * Equity premium, equity risk premium puzzle * Ethical, ethics (in business and financial decisions / information) * (getting) Even, get eventis * Evolutionary economics / finance * Executive behavior * (mathematical) Expectancy / Expectation (of value) * Expectancy bias / effect * (rational-mimetic) Expectations * Expected return * Expected utility * Expected value * (illusion of) Experience * Experimental (micro) economics / finance * (market) Externalities * (law of) Extremes, extreme risk * Extrinsic value
* FA * Fad * Fair (deal) / unfair * Fair price / value / valuation * Fairness (followed in next column) |
* (logical) Fallacy * Fallen angel * Familiarity * Fashion * Fat tails / wings (in distribution curves) * (Greed &) Fear * Feedback loop / positive feedback * Feeling * Female investing * Fluctuation * Focalism, focusing effect * Foot in the door * Fractals / Multifractals * Frame (dependence, effect) / Framing (bias) * Fund manager / management behavior / performance * Fundamental analysis (FA), valuation, value * Fundamental financial data * Fundamental investors / traders * Funnel effect * Fuzzy logic
* Gamble / Gambler / Gambling * Gambler's fallacy / paradox * Game playing * Game theory * GARCH / ARCH models * Gender attitudes to money management * Generalization * Genetic algorithm, computing * Genetic utility * Get even bias, Get-eventis * Glamour stocks * Goodhart law * Goal * Greater (or bigger) fool delusion * Greed (& Fear) * Group behavior * Groupthink * Growth investing / stock * Gullibility * Gunning * Guru * H coefficient, exponent * Habit * Halo effect * Heavy tail * Hemline theory * Herd instinct, behavior, mentality, Herding * Heteroskedasticity * Heuristic (bias / shortcut / limited) * (availability, representativeness) Heuristic * Hindsight bias * Home bias * Hope (& fear) * (investment) Horizon * Hot hand * House money effect * Hubris * Hurst coefficient, exponent * Hype * Hyperactivity * Hysteresis * (mass, crowd, collective) Hysteria * (rational) Ignorance * Illiquidity * Illusion * Image * Imitation * Inaction * (perverse) Incentive * Indecision * Independence, (non) Independent (in decision distribution) * Inefficiency, inefficient * Inertia * Information (incidence of, reaction to) * Information anomaly * Information asymmetry * Information bias * Information cascade * Information dissemination * Information economics * Information overload * (mental) Information processing * Intention, intentionality * Instinct, intuition * Intrinsic value * Investor psychology / style * Irrational, irrationality * January effect * (Markovian, quantum) Jump * Kiss of death * Knowledge, Knowledge acquisition * Knowledge asymmetry * (illusion of) Knowledge * Kurtosis * Lag, latency * Laziness * Lead-lag * Learning (social) * Leptokurtic distribution, leptokurtosis * (financial) Lifecycle * Liquidity * (Flight to) Liquidity * Liquidity crisis * Liquidity premium * Liquidity squeeze * Liquidity trap * Literacy * Logical fallacy * Long bias, longshot bias * Long tails * Loss averse, aversion * Luck, luck puzzle, luck vs. skill * Lyapunov exponent
* Magical thinking, numbers * Mania (collective) * Manipulation, manipulate * Mass behavior, hysteria, market * Maximization (of utility, of reward / risk) * Mean-reversion / reverting * Mean-variance * Media distortion * Meme, memetic * Memory (short, long) * Mental accounts / accounting / compartments * Microeconomics paradoxes (St Petersburg, Allais...) * Mimicry * (price) Misalignment * Misperception * Mispricing * Misreaction (to info) * Misrepresentation * Mob psychology * (trading, pricing, investment...) Model, Modeling * Mojo * Momentum, momentum effect * Momentum investing / trading * Money attitude * Money illusion / monetary illusion * (investor / market) Mood * (general / social) Mood * Moral * Moral hazard * Moral hypocrisy * Motivation, motive * (investor) Motivation * Mysticism, mystical, mystique * (mental) Myopia * Narcissism, narcissist * Narration, narrative * Narrow thinking * (human) Needs * Neighborhood effect * Neural / neuronal nets * Neuro-linguistic, Neuro-semantics * Neuroeconomics, Neurofinance * Neuropsychology * Neuroscience * Neutral market, Neutral trend * (effect of / reaction to) News * Noise trader / Noise trading * Non-Independence * Non-linearity, nonlinear effect / system * Non-stationary * Norms (social) * Nostalgia stocks * Numeracy bias * Numerology * Obedience to "experts" * Observer bias * Objective * Ophelimity * Optimism / optimistic bias, overoptimism * Ostrich effect * Overconfidence, overconfident * Overleverage * Overpricing / underpricing * Overreaction / underreaction * Overreliance (on experts, models, rules,
objectives, norms...) * Overtrade, overtrading * Oversimplification * Pain (and pleasure) * Panic * Paradigm * (decision) Paradoxes * Paralysis * Passive investing / management * PBR (P/B) effect * Peer influence / pressure / conformity / fear * P/E (PER) effect * Perceived risk, risk perception * Perception * Percolate, Percolating, percolation threshold * Persistence (in fractals / trends / biases / volatility) * (money, investment) Personality * Perverse effect, incentive * Peso problem anomaly * Pessimism * Phase transition * (market) Play, Player, Playing * Pleasure (and pain) * (market) Positioning * Ponzi scheme * Power law * Precision bias (followed in next column) |
* (economic) Preferences interactions, reversal, intransitivity * (psychological) Pressure * (bid, psychological) Price * (fair) Price * Price anomaly * Price information * Price-earnings ratio, price to book ratio * (Asset) Pricing * Pride * Primacy / priming effect * Principal- agent theory * Probability / Probabilities (objective, subjective, conditional)* Procrastination * Profile / Profiling 1 (stock types) * Profile / Profiling 2 (investor types) * Projection bias * Propaganda * Prospect theory * Prototype * Proximity bias * Pseudo-certainty, pseudo-instinct * Psychology (of investing, markets, money...) * (economic, financial) Psychology * Psychosociology / Psycho-sociology * Public behavioral finance / economics * Public choice / public policy bias * Pump and dump * Pyramidal scheme * QA * Quality premium * Quant * Quant fund * Quantitative analysis / QA * Quantitative behavioral finance * Quantitative investment / trading * Quantum lump, jump
* Random, randomness * Random walk hypothesis / RWH * Range estimate aversion * (risk of) Rare events * (Ir-) Rational, (Ir-) Rationality * Rational bubble, expectations, bias * Rational choice theory * (bounded, near) Rationality * Rationalization, rationalize * Reaction to info, news, events, signals * Real estate market anomalies/ herding/ boom * Rebiasing * Recency bias, effect * Reductionism * Reference point, (mental) reference * Reflex, reflexive bias, reflexivity, circularity * Regime switching * Regret aversion / avoidance / minimization. Expected Regret * (overconfidence in) Regulation * Reputation (of professionals) * Reputation (of stocks) * (mental/cognitive) Representation, * Representativeness heuristic * Resonance * Reversion / reverting / revert (to the mean / to the other extreme) * (financial) Risk * (small) Risk * (Specific / systematic) Risk * Risk perception * Risk premium * Risk premia puzzle * Risk-taking attitude, aversion, perception, preference, profile, tolerance, seeking * Rogue trader * Rotation (of attention, interest, image) * Round number anchoring * Rumor dissemination * RWH
* Salience, saliency, salient * (economic, financial) Satisfaction * (financial) Scam * (method of) Scenarios * Schema, Schemata * Script * Seasonal anomaly, Seasonality * (economic) Sector / concept fad * Selection bias / Selectivity bias * Selective attention/ exposure/ memory/ perception / reporting * Selectivity bias * Self adaptation, self organization * Self attribution * Self control bias, self discipline bias * Self esteem * Self-defeating prophecy * Self-delusion * Self-fulfilling prophecy * Self-illusion * Self-serving bias * Selling aversion * Semi-volatility * (investor / market) Sentiment * Sexual urge * Shooting star * Short term bias * Signal, signaling * Size anomaly / effect * Skew, skewness / Asymmetry * Small numbers (law of) * Social, social anomaly / behavior / bias / cognition / effect (general definition) * Social behavior / effect / influence (on finance / economics) * Social learning curve * Social psychology * Social representation * Social responsibility * Social utility * Socioeconomics, economic sociology * Sociopsychology * Soft computing * Systematic risk * (financial) Speculation * Spin * Spin glass model * Spotlight stocks * Standard finance * Stereotype * Status quo bias * Status seeking * Sticky (price) stickiness * Stochastics, stochastic calculation * Stock image * Stock profile / profiling / type * (good) Story, Storytelling * (investment) Strategy * Stubbornness * Stupidity * Style of investing, trading * Subprime crisis * Sunk-cost fallacy * Superstition * Surprise * Survivor bias, survival * Swarming * (dynamical / complex) System * System trading * Systematic bias * Systematic risk * Systemic crisis / risk
* (statistical) Tail risk * TA / Technical analysis * Testosterone * Throwing the sponge * Tilt, Tilting * Time arbitrage, value * (Investment) Time horizon, preference, span * Tipping / Transition / Triggering point * Trading pattern, style * Transitive preferences / reasoning, transitivity * Transmission of information * Transparency premium * Trend (as fashion or momentum) * Trend following / persistence * Triggering / Tipping point * Trophy seeking * Trust * Tunnel vision * Type / Prototype * Uncertainty (vs. risk) * Uncertainty aversion / avoidance / premium * Unconscious behavior, decision * Underadjustment * Underconfidence, underconfident * Underpricing / overpricing * Undertrading * Underreaction / overreaction * Unfair * Unintended consequence * Utility (in economics and finance) * (expected) Utility * Utility maximization
* (asset, stock) Valuation * Value * (fair) price / value, valuation * (economic / expected / intrinsic) stock Value * (extrinsic) Value * Value investing * Value puzzle * Value stock * Value trap * Vicious / virtuous circle * Viral communication * (excess) Volatility * (downside or semi-) Volatility * Volatility cluster * Volatility smile * Volatility puzzle * Weak, neglected, overlooked signal * Wealth effect * Wealth frame * Weather bias / effect * Willpower * Winner's curse * Wisdom * Wishful thinking * Yin-yang asset valuation
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