An Introduction to Socio-Finance by Jørgen Vitting Andersen, Andrzej Nowak.

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.   Two different levels of this sociological infl...

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Main Authors: Vitting Andersen, Jørgen (Author), Nowak, Andrzej (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Traditional Approach to Finance
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Financial Markets as Interacting Individuals: Price Formation From Models of Complexity
  • A Psychological Galilean Principle for Price Movements: Fundamental Framework for Technical Analysis
  • Catching Animal Spirits: Using Complexity Theory to Detect Speculative Moments of the Markets
  • Social Framing Creating Bull Markets of the Past: Growth Theory of Financial Markets
  • Complexity Theory and Systemic Risk in the World̀s Financial Markets
  • Comunication and the Stock Market
  • References
  • Index.