In this article we assess if German private investors gamble at the stock market. For this purpose, we replicate Kumar’s (2009) methodology and analyze the pricing of lottery-type stocks in the German stock market. We further employ data from Deutsche Bundesbank’s Securities Holdings...

We develop an adaptive learning game to rethink efficient markets. We use the stochastically stable state of this game, which is a mixed Nash equilibrium, to form an adaptive expectation model that provides an estimate of the confidence interval for prices on the next day. The estimate is most...

This research paper aim to examine the profitability of various kinds of oscillator used in technical analysis on market index of NSE (National Stock Exchange) S&P CNX NIFTY 50 during 2004-2014. We have selected the most commonly used three oscillators i.e., Stochastic oscillator, RSI Oscillator...

A new economic revolution liberating financial markets? Seeks to answer some of the questions driving the existential crisis embroiling finance: What is currency? What is value? What is a business? What is a bank, even?This article discusses how regulatory reform, transformative technologies,...

In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational — irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated...

In Nature’s Law, Elliott explained that the Fibonacci sequence provides a mathematical basis of the wave principle. In The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and The New Science of Socionomics, Prechter explained how Fibonacci sequence exists at all those instances where growth is the...

This study provides an overview of the model evolution and research trends in the field of financial and risk modelling by applying a bibliometric approach from 2008–2019 and an overall citation network analysis. We present a content analysis of contributing authors, countries, journals, main...

We measure investors' short- and long-term stock-return expectations using both options and survey data. These expectations at different horizons reveal what investors think their own short-term expectations will be in the future, or forward return expectations. While contemporaneous short-term...