Economic theories explain investor behavior during financial bubbles

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Economic and behavioral finance theories successfully explain investor behavior and asset pricing deviations during financial bubbles by incorporating sentiment, cognitive biases, and herding effects.

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The retrieved literature consistently supports the claim that economic and behavioral theories account for investor behavior during bubbles, pointing to sentiment, heuristics, and mispricing models as core explanatory frameworks. No papers refute this premise.

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Investor Sentiment and Asset Valuation

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Michael T. Cliff, Gregory W. Brown. Investor Sentiment and Asset Valuation. 2001. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.292139

Demonstrates that investor sentiment and psychological optimism drive asset valuations above intrinsic values, validating economic and behavioral theories of market bubbles.

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Theoretical Research on the Impact of Investor Sentiment on Asset Pricing in Behavioral Finance

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Zhicheng Wang. Theoretical Research on the Impact of Investor Sentiment on Asset Pricing in Behavioral Finance. 2026. https://doi.org/10.54097/gv8nk346

Reviews behavioral finance frameworks showing how investor sentiment, cognitive biases, and herding cause systematic mispricing and asset bubbles.

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Sentiment, Investor Sophistication, and Asset Bubble

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Xuewen Liu, Pengfei Wang, Zhongchao Yang. Sentiment, Investor Sophistication, and Asset Bubble. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6202978

Examines how market sentiment interacts with investor sophistication and information processing in theoretical asset bubble models.

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