The Synthesis of "market anomalies"

Explore Behavioral Finance, the study of how psychological biases impact investor decisions and create market anomalies. Understand your financial mind.

Discover what financial markets are, how they work, and why their movements impact global economies and your personal finances.

Learn what market volatility means, why it's a key financial indicator, and how rapid price swings can impact your investments and personal finances.

Discover market failure: an economic situation where the free market fails to allocate goods and services efficiently, leading to negative outcomes.

A market correction is a price decline of 10% or more in a stock market index. Learn what causes these events and how they affect investors.

A financial crisis occurs when key financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Learn what they are, why they happen, and their impact.

Learn what an economic bubble is, why they form from market speculation, and the risks they pose to investors and the economy when they burst.

Discover what information asymmetry is, a key economic concept where one party in a transaction has more or better information than the other.

Discover asymmetric information, where one party in a transaction has more knowledge than the other, leading to market imbalances and poor decisions.

Discover adverse selection, a market failure where asymmetric information lets one party make decisions that negatively affect the other, often in insurance.