Handbook of Investors' Behavior During Financial Crises

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The Handbook of Investors' Behavior during Financial Crises provides fundamental information about investor behavior during turbulent periods, such the 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 global financial crisis. Contributors share the same behavioral finance tools and techniques while analyzing behaviors across a variety of market structures and asset classes. The volume provides novel insights about the influence and effects of regional differences in market design. Its distinctive approach to studies of financial crises is of key importance in our contemporary financial landscape, even more so since the accelerated process of globalization has rendered the outbreak of financial crises internationally more commonplace compared to previous decades. Encompasses empirical, quantitative and regulation-motivated studiesIncludes information about retail and institutional investor behaviorAnalyzes optimal financial structures for the development and growth of specific regional economies Content: SECTION A: theoretical perspectives of investors' behaviour during financial crises 1. Debt Markets, Financial Crises and Public Finance in the Eurozone: Action, Structure and Experience in Greece 2. Investor Behavior Before, and After the Financial Crisis: From a Muted Response to an Increased Risk Appetiteã 3. Optimal Bubble Exit Strategies 4. Solving the Viner-Hayek Controversy - Financial Crises and the Conflicting Worlds of Deductive and Inductive Game Theory 5. Governing Financial Orders Which Have Been Grown and Not Made: The Origins of the Financial Crisis in Financial Gridlock 6. Overconfidence in Finance: Overview and Trends 7. Rational Agents and Irrational Bubbles 8. The Similarities Between the Bulgarian Local Financial Crisis in 1997 and the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 SECTION B: Empirical Evidence On Investors' Behaviour During Financial Crises 9. Herding, Volatility and Market Stress in the Spanish Stock Market 10. Did Security Analysts Overreact during the Global Financial Crisis? New Insights 11. The Determinants of U.S. Bank Failures During 2008-2010 12. Financial Crises and Herd Behavior: Evidence from Borsa Istanbul 13. Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hide: Stress Testing of the Investor Behavior 14. Market Sentiment and Contagion in Euro-Area Bond Markets 15. Regime Switching on the Relationship Between Stock Returns and Currency Values: Evidence From the 1997 Asian Crisis 16. Relationship Between illiquidity and Monetary Conditions in the United Kingdom 17. Herding in the Athens Stock Exchange During Different Crisis Periods 18. Beta herding in emerging stock markets 19. Exchange-Traded Funds: Do They Promote or Depress Noise Trading? 20. The Behavior of Online Individual Investors before and after the 2007 Financial Crisis: Lessons from the French Case SECTION C: Behavioural Trading Strategies During Financial Crises 21. Simple Tactical Asset Allocation Strategies on the S&P 500 and the Impact of VIX Fluctuations 22. Horizontal and Natural Visibility Graph Analysis of S&P 500 Index time series 23. Illiquidity as an Investment Style During the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom 24. On The Pricing of Commonality Across Various Liquidity Proxies in the London Stock Exchange and The Crisis