Handbook of Experimental Finance

This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of experimental finance methodology, exploring its past, present, and future. It offers insights into human behavior in financial decision-making, market experiments, and experimental tools and methodologies. It is a valuable resource for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in innovating and experimenting with financial decision-making.

Format: Hardback
Length: 450 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This comprehensive Handbook offers an in-depth exploration of the past, present, and future of the field of experimental finance. Providing a comprehensive analysis of current topics, methodologies, findings, and breakthroughs in research conducted through experimental finance methodology, it serves as a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners alike.

The Handbook begins by delving into the realm of human behavior in financial decision-making, raising methodological questions related to subject pool selection, cognitive finance, physical and physiological measurement, and research directions. It emphasizes the dual nature of experimental finance, exploring market experiments through applied topics such as bank runs, financial accounting, and nudging.

Chapters further explore experimental tools and methodologies, critical perspectives, roadmaps for implementation, and empirical testing of finance theories. By providing examples of experiments that test fundamental theoretical constructs in finance, this Handbook serves as a vital resource for students and scholars of finance, financial economics, and experimental methodology. It also proves useful to practitioners and policymakers seeking to innovate and experiment with their approaches to financial decision-making.

In conclusion, this Handbook provides a comprehensive and insightful examination of experimental finance, offering valuable insights into its past, present, and future. It serves as a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike, contributing to the advancement of knowledge and practice in the field.

Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800372320