Behavioral finance and Chinese stock market

Abstract

This book addresses eight issues on behavioral finance and Chinese stock market: the theory of economic agent's self value, Chinese stock market's rapid development and linebreak peculiarities, the momentum and contrarian strategies in Chinese stock market, the highly volatile beta in China's stock market, Chinese stock market's small firm effect and calendar effects, the behavior of Chinese private stock investors, and the relation between the turnover ratio and the market return in Chinese stock market. All these eight issues lie at the current research frontier although some are oriented towards theory and the others towards empirical analysis