Market Crashes and Collective Rationality.

      Аннотация: Sudden crashes are common features of financial markets, worldwide. Those sudden crashes cannot be explained by current economic theories, which essentially rely on changes in fundamentals. Psychological factors are a natural alternative explanation to those phenomena. In this book, we investigate those psychological factors and their impact on financial crises, with a strong focus on collective rationality. Concepts such as herd behavior and pack behavior are studied, together with their implications for financial stability.

Ключевые слова: collective rationality, Market crashes