Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets

Adam Szyszka is a Professor of finance and economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and at the Poznan University of Economics, Poland. Professor Szyszka was the Fulbright Doctoral Scholar and later the Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University in New York. He participated in seminars and lectured at a number of internationally known institutions of higher education including Harvard Business School, Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Adelaide in Australia. He has also served as a consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an investment banker in Bank Millennium, and a partner in AT INVEST, which he co-founded.

• 1. Behavioral Approach Versus Neoclassical Theory of Finance.- 2. Psychological Aspects of Decision Making.- 3. Investor Behavior.- 4. Asset Pricing Anomalies and Investment Strategies.- 5. Market-wide Consequences of Behavioral Biases.- 6. Behavioral Insights into Financial Crisis.- 7. Rational Corporations in Irrational Markets.- 8. Managerial Biases in Corporate Policy.- 9. Empirical Evidence on Managerial Practice.- 10. Heuristics and Biases Among Corporate Managers.

"Szyszka provides an excellent introduction to this intellectual conflict [between the dominant neoclassical and upstart behavioral paradigms] and the basic contours of the theoretical and empirical grounds upon which the battle is taking place. The text offers something for just about any reader interested in a better understanding of capital markets, whether undergraduate students considering a future in finance, graduate students forming their own research agenda, or professionals in finance wanting to develop better predictive models or simply gain a better grasp of current academic debates about market behavior. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - CHOICE"Szyszka presents in this excellent book a comprehensive review of the growing field of behavioral finance, useful for academics, practitioners, and students." - Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University, USA"A timely comprehensive overview of the growing behavioral finance literature. An integrative approach, focusing both on implications for asset management as well as corporate finance." - Theo Vermaelen, Professor of International Finance and Asset Management, INSEAD Business School, Co-manager of DIM PV Buyback USA Fund, Belgium"An interesting book for business students and managers looking for a systematic introduction to all aspects of behavioral finance." - Werner De Bondt, Professor of Behavioral Finance, DePaul University, USA"A well-thought and well-researched book which analyses the role of fear and greed in finance and offers thus an original perspective on recent financial crises." - Professor Philippe Maystadt, Honorary President of the European Investment Bank, Belgium