Emotional State and Market Behavior

Adriana Breaban; CN (Charles) Noussair

doi:10.1093/rof/rfx022

Emotional State and Market Behavior

Adriana Breaban, CN (Charles) Noussair

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We consider the relationship between trader emotions and asset market behavior. We create experimental asset markets with the structure first studied by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988), which is known to generate price bubbles and crashes. To track traders’ emotions in real time, we analyze participants’ facial expressions with facereading software before and while the market is operating. We find that a positive emotional state correlates with purchases and overpricing. Fear correlates with selling, low prices, and price decreases. The experiment confirms the intuition that emotions and market dynamics are closely related.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	297-309
Number of pages	13
Journal	Review of Finance
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfx022
Publication status	Published - 2018

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