The ''Journal of Behavioral Finance'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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that covers research related to the field of
behavioral finance
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory.
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. It was established in 2000 as ''The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets''. The founding Board of Editors were Brian Bruce, David Dreman, Paul Slovic,
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith and Arnold Wood. The
editor-in-chief
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was
Gunduz Caginalp
Gunduz Caginalp was a mathematician whose research has also contributed over 100 papers to physics, materials science and economics/finance journals, including two with Michael Fisher and nine with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith. He began his studi ...
(2000-2005), Brian Bruce (Hillcrest Asset Management) is the current editor. Taylor and Francis is the journal’s publisher (2023).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2022
impact factor
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of 1.8. In a 2010 ranking it was 71st out of 76 journals in the category "Business, Finance",
and 256th out of 305 journals in the category "Economics".
The Journal is ranked number 30 out of 80 established finance program journals, as per the Author Affiliation Index methodology, which is an affiliation based network approach to journal rankings. The rankings are published in the Journal of Corporate Finance. It has a 7% acceptance rate. The Australian Business School Deans list it as a selective A ranked journal.
[Anne-Wil Harzing. (April 18, 2016]
Journal quality list
57th edition.
See also
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Prospect theory
Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics and behavioral finance that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was cited in the decision to award Kahneman the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Based ...
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Technical analysis
In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for analysing and forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis use many of the sam ...
References
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