Social Spirits : A New Research Agenda for the Sociology of the Stock Exchange

ISBN-13: 9783659866425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 124 str.

Fiammetta Corradi

Opis

The enourmous impact stock exchanges and financial markets have on contemporary economy and society deserve renewed, systematic attention by sociologists. This book provides students and researchers with the theoretical and methodological tools essential to explore new research paths in the sociology of finance. Together with an introduction to the efficient market theory, the random walk hypothesis, and the heuristics and biases discovered by cognitive psychology and behavioral finance, different schools of thought directed at forecasting stock price movements are presented and critically examined. The book also displays empirical case studies dedicated to some institutional and informal restraints to speculation, as well as to the impact of the media on stock prices during the latest terrorist attacks in Paris and in the recent Chinese financial crisis.

O autorze

Fiammetta Corradi had its PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan. Authors of many essays and books in the Sociology of Knowledge and in Economic Sociology, she now teaches "Economics and Society" at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pavia.