Journal of Behavioral Finance

Infobox Journal


discipline = Behavioral finance
publisher = The Institute of Behavioral Finance and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
country = USA
abbreviation = JBF
history = 2000 to present
website = http://www.psychologyandmarkets.org/journals/journals_main.html
ISSN = 1542-7560

The Journal of Behavioral Finance is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research related to the field of behavioral finance. It formerly published as The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets.

Contributors to the Journal of Behavioral Finance have included specialists in psychology and psychiatry, sociology, behavioral economics, and the financial markets. The journal's publisher says its audience includes professionals in the above disciplines, as well as those in "consumer behavior and marketing," and in "the multidisciplinary study of judgment and decision making."

Notable contributors to the journal include Robert Shiller of the Yale School of Management, Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith, Robert Prechter, and Aaron Lynch.

Brian Bruce serves as the journal's current editor. Associate editors include professor Andrew Loof the MIT Sloan School of Management, and professor John Schott of the Harvard Medical School. The Journal of Behavioral Finance appears in the Prosource and EBSCO business/finance indexes, and in the American Economic Association's EconLit index.

ee also

* Behavioral finance
* Prospect theory
* Technical analysis
* List of cognitive biases
* Socionomics

External links

* [http://www.psychologyandmarkets.org/journals/journals_main.html Institute of Behavioral Finance]
* [http://www.psychologyandmarkets.org/research/research_main.html Publicly accessible research from the Institute of Behavioral Finance]
* [http://www.leaonline.com/loi/jpfm Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.]