Gambling is an ancient human activity with a prevalent position nowadays both as a social entertainment activity and as a way to gain money effortless. Every country has its specific pattern in gambling determined both by its cultural and macroeconomic determinants and by its national regulatory...

The life satisfaction literature has boomed in the last decades since economists have access to more accurate databases allowing to test the impact of alternative variables on subjective well-being. A still unexplored issue is the relationship between financial crises and life satisfaction, due...

In the last decades, a growing body of literature was dedicated to the analysis of the determinants ofwell-being. Despite that, the relation between well-being and capital markets has never been investigated,presumably due to the scarcity of subjective well-being time series. The present paper...

The present paper studies the relationship between well-being and the stock market in the USA. We find that there is a relationship between well-being and the capital market. Empirical tests, using the Gallupp Healthways Well-being Index, Standard&Poor’s S&P 500 and the VIX volatility index...

The life satisfaction literature has boomed in the last decades since economists have access to more accurate databases allowing to test the impact of alternative variables on subjective well-being. A still unexplored issue is the relationship between financial crises and life satisfaction, due...

Usually, consumer spending declines during recession. Cosmetics seem to disobey thisrule; there are evidences to prove that women spending on beauty products increased during theeconomic turmoil. The scarcity of detailed data regarding this industry makes very hard to test thiseffect. The present...

Our brain is daily confronted with a huge amount of information and stimulus, hard to be understood and assimilated. In this context the investment decision is often determinate by inter-temporal restrictions, psychological factors and less probable by purely rational factors. Weather factors as...

From individual investors to corporations and financial firms, derivatives have been used to hedge against, or speculation, changes in prices, rates, indexes, potential defaults on debts. Without any oversight, derivatives market and especially OTC derivatives rapidly became out of control...

The pathology of the financial instability is inter alia characterized by structural changes in the market prices’ volatility. Such changes are the expression of investor’s uncertainty in regard to the market’s dynamics and lead to systematic anticipation errors. The objective of this...