New Governance for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Startups: Behavioral Finance to the Rescue

Jaime Amsel

Chapter 2 in Behavioral Finance:The Coming of Age, 2019, pp 25-35 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Human Behavior: very little of it is explained, most of it is being post-factum justified. Government Policy: very little of it is research driven, most if it is being post-factum ideologized. Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg, all three were college dropouts. Does this mean, at a personal level, that you should go to college and drop out to become a successful “start upper”? Does it mean, at a national level, that governments should encourage people to sign into college and then drop out to improve the economy? Perhaps Behavioral Finance can provide ex ante individual explanations and better policy answers…

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Finance; Behavioral Macro-Finance; Decision Making; Disposition Effect; Financial Crisis; Financial Decision-Making; Financial Market Anomalies; Fintech; Gender Differences; Heuristics; Information Processing Style; International Contagion Market Design; Monetary Policy; Mood; Optimal Portfolio; Overreaction; Peer-to-Peer Lending; Political Economics; Time Pressure; Transparency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G30 G41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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