One of the most difficult problems analysts and decision-makers may face is how to improve the forecasting and predicting of financial time series. However, several efforts were made to develop more accurate and reliable forecasting methods. The main purpose of this study is to use technical...

Chapter 1 investigates how people's beliefs and investment behavior change in light of social information from their peers and from experts with a large-scale online experiment with participants from the U.S. and the U.K. I find that laypeople’s forecasts are strongly influenced by information...