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Book Review: Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

Jagadeesh Gokhale
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 3, pp 587-594
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This article is published in Cato Journal.The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Animal spirits & Capitalism.

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Uncertainty, risk, and the financial crisis of 2008

TL;DR: The authors show that market actors and economic policy-makers substitute other methods of decision making for rational calculation in the presence of uncertainty, specifically, actors' decisions are rooted in social conventions.
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Global Financial Cycles and Risk Premiums

TL;DR: In this article, the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years is studied, and the authors demonstrate that fluctuations in risk premiums, and not risk-free rates and dividends, account for a large part of the observed equity price synchronization after 1990.
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Trust in Banks during Normal and Crisis Times—Evidence from Survey Data

Markus Knell, +1 more
- 19 Sep 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the evolution of people's trust in banks during the global financial crisis and the factors that determine its level, and establish that a trust decline is related to agents' subjective view of the economic situation and the direct experience of bank failures.
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This can( `t) be an asset class: The world of money management, “society”, and the contested morality of farmland investments:

TL;DR: The authors argued that a combined reading of debates on assets and assetization in financialized capi... drew on several years of fieldwork-based research on and in the "farmland investment space".
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The Rise of Behavioral Economics: A Quantitative Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the issue of operationalizing and empirically measuring the development of behavioral economics, focusing on trends in the academic literature, and provide a quantitative, bibliometric assessment to answer the question of whether the relative importance of behavioural economics has increased over the past decades.
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Uncertainty, risk, and the financial crisis of 2008

TL;DR: The authors show that market actors and economic policy-makers substitute other methods of decision making for rational calculation in the presence of uncertainty, specifically, actors' decisions are rooted in social conventions.
Posted Content

Global Financial Cycles and Risk Premiums

TL;DR: In this article, the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years is studied, and the authors demonstrate that fluctuations in risk premiums, and not risk-free rates and dividends, account for a large part of the observed equity price synchronization after 1990.
Journal ArticleDOI

Trust in Banks during Normal and Crisis Times—Evidence from Survey Data

Markus Knell, +1 more
- 19 Sep 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the evolution of people's trust in banks during the global financial crisis and the factors that determine its level, and establish that a trust decline is related to agents' subjective view of the economic situation and the direct experience of bank failures.
Journal ArticleDOI

This can( `t) be an asset class: The world of money management, “society”, and the contested morality of farmland investments:

TL;DR: The authors argued that a combined reading of debates on assets and assetization in financialized capi... drew on several years of fieldwork-based research on and in the "farmland investment space".
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The Rise of Behavioral Economics: A Quantitative Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the issue of operationalizing and empirically measuring the development of behavioral economics, focusing on trends in the academic literature, and provide a quantitative, bibliometric assessment to answer the question of whether the relative importance of behavioural economics has increased over the past decades.