triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory … approaches to finance and investing, i.e., modern portfolio theory and behavioral finance, and provides an overview of stock … can be downloaded at extras.springer.com. In this book modern portfolio theory meets behavioral finance, resulting in new …

compendium on the financial theory, the empirical evidence and the mathematical tools that form the underlying principles of …

, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one of the most economically significant puzzles in finance is why … experienced, well-resourced fund managers cannot outperform the market. Applied Investment Theory: How Equity Markets Behave, and … documented, but free of jargon and arcane math, and provides a grounded theory that is relevant to anyone who wants to pierce the …

of both levels of socio-finance are presented, and it is shown, in particular, how complexity theory provides the … broad introduction to the standard economic theory of rational financial markets and will come to understand its … shortcomings with the help of concrete examples. Complexity theory is then introduced in order to properly account for behavioral …

portfolio theory (MPT) and illustrates how the constraints interfere substantially in the construction of optimized portfolios …