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Product details

  • ISBN 9780197699850
  • Weight: 1670g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Description
Household Finance: An Introduction to Individual Financial Behavior speaks to both how people should and how people actually do make financial decisions, and how these financial decisions contribute to and detract from their well-being. Households must plan over long but finite horizons, have important nontraded assets, notably human capital; hold illiquid assets, particularly housing; face constraints on the ability to borrow; and are subject to complex taxation. Some households manage these goals and challenges independently, while still others delegate portfolio management. Household financial problems have many special features that differ from firms, investors, or the functioning of markets. Author Richard Deaves covers the broad range of choices and goals in household finance both in the normative sense (i.e., what is best) based on conventional financial theory and in the positive sense (i.e., what is actually done) based on observing actual behavior. While modern finance builds models of behavior and markets based on strong assumptions such as the rationality of decision-makers, behavioral finance is based on the view that sometimes people behave in a less-than-fully-rational fashion when making financial decisions. Deaves addresses important issues and puzzles in the field such as financial illiteracy, whether education and advice can improve outcomes, intertemporal consumption optimization, consumption smoothing, optimal dynamic risk-taking, the stock market participation puzzle, the credit card debt puzzle, anomalous insurance decisions, mortgage choices, skewness preference, investments driven by availability and attention, local and home bias, the disposition effect, optimal pension design and improving outcomes through nudging in a thoroughly international approach.
About Dr. Richard Deaves
Richard Deaves is professor emeritus of Finance at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Elsewhere, he has addressed groups of students and executives at various universities in Canada, the U.S., South America, Europe and the Far East. His research has been published extensively, appearing in such prestigious journals as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Most of his recent research deals with issues in household, behavioral and experimental finance. He has also published on such issues as the performance of investment funds; market efficiency; modeling interest rates; and pricing, efficiency and hedging in futures markets. His consulting experience has spanned such topics as investor behavior; pension design; hedging in the energy industry; the predictability of interest rates; real options and capital budgeting; and security valuation. He has served as an expert in numerous regulatory and legal proceedings. His work has been profiled in such international media outlets as CNN, Newsweek and Der Spiegel. He has also been affiliated with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany.