This experimental paper investigates the impact of emotions on risk and return estimates of stocks. Participants rate well-known blue-chip firms on an emotional scale and forecast risk and return of the firms' stock. We find that positive emotions lead to a prediction of high return and low...

The residential mortgage backed securities (MBS) market expanded and collapsed as securitizers packaged increasingly toxic loans into private label MBS. Underwriting of the ability to repay was replaced with new affordability products and expectation of continuously rising home prices. The risk...