"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and on financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but...

Contents Part I Foundations 1 Introduction 3 1.1 An Introduction to This Book 3 1.2 An Introduction to Financial Economics ...

Part I: Exercises -- Introduction -- Decision Theory -- Two-Period Model: Mean-Variance Approach -- Two-Period Model: State-Preference Approach -- Multiple-Periods Model -- Theory of the Firm -- Information Asymmetries on Financial Markets -- Time-Continuous Model -- Part II: Solutions --...

Financial economics is a fascinating topic where ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology are combined to understand financial markets. This book gives a concise introduction into this field and includes for the first time recent results from behavioral finance that help...