Handbook of investors' behavior during financial crises / edited by Fotini Economou, Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Greg N. Gregoriou, Vasileios Kallinterakis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Debt Markets, Financial Crises, and Public Finance in the Eurozone: Action, Structure, and Experience in Greece -- 2. Investor Behavior Before and After the Financial Crisis: Accounting Standards and Risk Appetite in Fixed Income Investing -- 3. Optimal Bubble Exit Strategies -- 4. Why History Matters to Financial Economists: The Case of Black Monday 1987 -- 5. Governing Financial Orders Which Have Been Grown and Not Made: The Origins of the Financial Crisis in Financial Gridlock -- 6. Overconfidence in Finance: Overview and Trends -- 7. Rational Agents and Irrational Bubbles -- 8. The Similarities Between the Bulgarian Local Financial Crisis in 1997 and the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 -- 9. Herding, Volatility and Market Stress in the Spanish Stock Market -- 10. Did Security Analysts Overreact during the Global Financial Crisis? Canadian evidence -- 11. Bank Failures and management inefficiency during the Global Financial Crisis -- 12. Financial Crises and Herd Behavior: Evidence from the Borsa Istanbul -- 13. Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Stress Testing of the Investor Behavior -- 14. Market Sentiment and Contagion in Euro-Area Bond Markets -- 15. Regime Switching on the Relationship Between Stock Returns and Currency Values: Evidence From the 1997 Asian Crisis -- 16. Illiquidity, Monetary Conditions, and the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom -- 17. Herding in the Athens Stock Exchange During Different Crisis Periods -- 18. Liquidity and Beta herding in emerging equity markets -- 19. Exchange-Traded Funds: Do They Promote or Depress Noise Trading? -- 20. The Behavior of individual Online Individual Investors before and after the 2007 Financial Crisis: Lessons from the French Case -- 21. Simple Tactical Asset Allocation Strategies on the S & P 500 and the Impact of VIX Fluctuations -- 22. Investors' behavior on S & P 500 index during periods of market crashes: a Visibility Graph approach-- 23. Illiquidity as an Investment Style During the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom -- 24. On The Pricing of Commonality Across Various Liquidity Proxies in the London Stock Exchange and The Crisis.

"The Handbook of Investors' Behavior during Financial Crises provides fundamental information about investor behavior during turbulent periods, such the 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 global financial crisis. Contributors share the same behavioral finance tools and techniques while analyzing behaviors across a variety of market structures and asset classes. The volume provides novel insights about the influence and effects of regional differences in market design. Its distinctive approach to studies of financial crises is of key importance in our contemporary financial landscape, even more so since the accelerated process of globalization has rendered the outbreak of financial crises internationally more commonplace compared to previous decades. Encompasses empirical, quantitative and regulation-motivated studies Includes information about retail and institutional investor behavior ; Analyzes optimal financial structures for the development and growth of specific regional economies"--Provided by publisher.

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