Investor Emotions and the Psychodynamics of Asset Pricing Bubbles: A Chinese Perspective

Richard Taffler, Xijuan Bellotti, Vineet Agarwal and Linglu Li

Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2024, vol. 25, issue 3, 309-333

Abstract: This paper explores the powerful emotions unleashed during asset pricing bubbles. Adopting a psychoanalytic perspective, we develop a five-stage path-dependent model of such financial crises and test this empirically on the Chinese 2005–2008 and 2014–2016 stock market bubbles. Results are consistent with our underlying theory and demonstrate how investors experience a range of highly charged emotions directly related with different market states during such episodes. Our evidence suggests that if we wish properly to understand and explain such destructive events, we also need to recognize the fundamental role investor unconscious fantasies and market psychodynamic processes play in their etiology.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2022.2138391

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