Explaining Apparent Stock Market Anomalies

@inproceedings{Leong2002ExplainingAS,
  title={Explaining Apparent Stock Market Anomalies},
  author={Clint Tan Chee Leong and Michael J. Seiler and Mark A. Lane},
  year={2002},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155028711}
}
The article provides a discussion of the psychological and behavioral investor aspects responsible for the phenomenon of stock price momentum. Anchoring, herding, overconfidence, mental accounting, myopic loss aversion, regret aversion, prospect theory, over-reaction and under-reaction, representativeness, non-transitivity and question framing, hindsight bias and pride, barn-door closing, sensation seeking, and response to market consensus estimate are all examined to offer explanations for the… 
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