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Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets.
The questions he addresses include: What are the cognitive errors and emotions that influence investors? What are investor aspirations? How can financial advisors and plan sponsors help investors? What is the nature of risk and regret? How do investors form portfolios? How successful are tactical asset allocation and strategic asset allocation? What determines stock returns? What are the effects of sentiment? How successful are socially responsible investors?
Meir's research has been published in the , the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and many other journals. The research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA). Meir is a member of the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Wealth Management and the Journal of Investment Consulting, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Research, the Journal of Behavioral Finance, and the Journal of Investment Management and a recipient of a Batterymarch Fellowship, a William F. Sharpe Best Paper Award, a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award, a Davis Ethics Award, a Moskowitz Prize for best paper on socially responsible investing, two Baker IMCA Journal Awards, and two Graham and Dodd Awards of Excellence. Meir consults with many investment companies and presents his work to academics and professionals in many forums in the U.S. and abroad.
Meir received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and his B.A. and M.B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Introduction: What We Want | p. ix |
We Want Profits Higher than Risks | p. 1 |
We Have Thoughts, Some Erroneous | p. 17 |
We Have Emotions, Some Misleading | p. 37 |
We Want to Play, and Win | p. 55 |
We Join Herds and Inflate Bubbles | p. 67 |
We Want Self-Control and Mental Accounts | p. 81 |
We Want to Save for Tomorrow and Spend It Today | p. 93 |
We Want Hope for Riches and Freedom from the Fear of Poverty | p. 107 |
We Have Similar Wants and Different Ones | p. 119 |
We Want to Face No Losses | p. 133 |
We Want to Pay No Taxes | p. 151 |
We Want High Status and Proper Respect | p. 161 |
We Want to Stay True to Our Values | p. 177 |
We Want Fairness | p. 195 |
We Want to Invest in Our Children and Families | p. 209 |
We Want Education, Advice, and Protection | p. 223 |
Conclusion: What We Have | p. 237 |
Notes | p. 243 |
Index | p. 275 |
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