Investors' Perceptions and Stock Market Outcomes

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Investors' Perceptions and Stock Market Outcomes. This book deals with the issue of the determinants of stock market outcomes. Each chapter tries to explain why stock prices change the way they do and to discover a general approach to predict them. They tells a unique story behind the decision-making process of stock market players starting from the general approach and trying to determine if the stock market outcomes affect economic growth in developing and developed countries. The book moves on to discuss oil prices and their effect on the stock market indices. The second part makes use of the event study methodology and discusses the effect of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on th