The Fear Factor

What Happens When Fear Grips Wall Street

By: C. Read

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Hardcover | 23 July 2009 | Edition Number 1

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A fascinating discussion of the role played by fear in financial market panics. Professor Read demonstrates, in easy-to-understand terms, that rising market fear portends to major financial declines. He explains the science and the economics of fear and shows that the financial market has learned how to capitalize on investor or economic fear

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Introduction
The Nature of Risk
The Biology and Psychology of Fear
An Economic Definition of Fear and Risk
The Supply and Demand of Loanable Funds
The Demand Side
The Supply Side
Balance of Capital
Measurement of Risk
The Risk Premium - How Risk Affects Expected Returns
The Fear Premium
The Demographics of Risk and Fear
The Microeconomics of Risk Aversion
The Problems With Risk
Moral Hazard
Privatized Gains and Socialized Losses
Adverse Selection and Imperfect Information
Risk, Uncertainty, Fear, and Gambling
Risk and the Market
Market Volatility and Returns
Fear, Panic, and Market Returns
The Fear Factor
A History of Panics
A Brief History of the Fear Gripped Market
The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash
The Depression-Gripped Economy
Along Comes Keynes
Coordination Failures
The Market for Lemmings, or Tale of Two Cultures
The Role of Machines and Programmed trading
The Ratings Agencies - More Perfect Information?
Social Responsibility as An Antidote to Fear
Where Were the Regulators
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Wall Street, Main Street, and the Social Contract
Institutions the Ameliorate Or Amplify Fear
The Media as an Antidote to Fear
Politics That Fan the Flames of Fear
Is There More to Fear than Fear Itself?
Solutions and Conclusions
Economic Leadership as an Antidote to Fear
A Dozen Prescriptions to Take Back the Markets
Conclusions
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