Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing 2e, Hersh Shefrin


A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing 2nd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Hersh Shefrin provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of how psychology affects market activity. The key message remains: that the future of asset pricing theory lies in bringing together the powerful SDF-based tools adopted by neoclassical asset pricing theorists and the more realistic assumptions adopted by behavioral asset pricing theorists.

The most important equation in the first edition is the decomposition of the log-SDF into sentiment and a fundamental component. In the second edition, Shefrin extends the analysis to demonstrate how this equation can be generalized to encompass the combination of behavioral preferences and behavioral beliefs. This generalization provides a unified approach that ties together the main ideas in the book.

Behavioral finance is the study of how psychology affects financial decision making and financial markets. It is increasingly becoming the common way of understanding investor behavior and stock market activity. In this 2nd Edition Hersh Shefrin examines the reigning assumptions of asset pricing theory and reconstructs them to incorporate findings from behavioral finance.

In other words, he takes the traditional tools in asset pricing and behavioralizes them. He constructs a solid, intact structure that challenges classic assumptions and at the same time provides a strong theory and efficient empirical tools. Building on the models developed by both traditional asset pricing theorists and behavioral asset pricing theorists, Shefrin's book takes the discussion to the next step.

Author provides a general behaviorally based intertemporal treatment of asset pricing theory that extends to the discussion of derivatives, fixed income securities, mean-variance efficient portfolios, and the market portfolio, based on all the latest research and theory.

This book provides a much-needed bridge between behavioral finance and traditional asset pricing theory, so that the insights that the two fields offer can complement each other. This book will make the theory of behavioral finance far more useful and broadly applicable.

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