Bubbles in Credit and Currency - How Hot Markets Cool Down

Drawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of opinion and soft irrationality, and examines the importance of these swings in the credit markets.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Markets Hot and Cold Is Speculation a Positive Sum Game? Bubbles in Financial Genius What's New about the Carry Trade? How to Reduce Toxic Waste?

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Brendan Brown is an international economist practising in the city of London. He has authored many previous books on international financial topics, including Japanese and European monetary issues both actual and historical. His postgraduate degrees are from the University of Chicago and London School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to the Japanese financial media.

Zusammenfassung

Drawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of opinion and soft irrationality, and examines the importance of these swings in the credit markets.

Zusatztext

Recommended by Fortune Magazine

'A remarkable book that anticipated the global financial crisis in the second half of 2008.' - Long Range Planning

Bericht

Recommended by Fortune Magazine
'A remarkable book that anticipated the global financial crisis in the second half of 2008.' - Long Range Planning

Produktdetails

• Autoren: B Brown, B. Brown
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781349362165
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36216-5
• Seiten: 222
• Abmessung: 127 mm x 12 mm x 203 mm
• Gewicht: 254 g
• Illustration: VII, 222 p.
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Internationale Wirtschaft; B, Accounting, Finance, macroeconomics, Economic history, Finance, general, Accounting/Auditing, International Economics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Finance & accounting, Financial Economics, Monetary Economics, Management science, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Bookkeeping, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Behavioral Finance;finance;trade