Werner De Bondt

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Werner De Bondt
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Belgium
Academic career
Institution DePaul University 2002–
University of Wisconsin–Madison 1984-2002
Field Behavioral finance, behavioral economics, investment management, investor psychology, entrepreneurial beliefs and motivation, financial planning and investor advice
Alma mater Cornell University Ph.D. 1985
Influences David Dreman, Jacques Ellul, Benjamin Graham, Karel (Galileo) Imbrechts, Daniel Kahneman, Wim Moesen, Paul Slovic, Richard Thaler, Amos Tversky, Lambert Vanthienen.

Werner F.M. De Bondt is one of the founders in the field of behavioral finance. He is also the founding director of Richard H. Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance at DePaul University in Chicago. Previously, he was the Frank Graner Professor of Investment Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Thomas F. Gleed Chair of Business Administration at Albers School of Business and Economics at the Seattle University.

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Life and career

He is a native of Belgium and an alumnus of Hagelstein (St.-Katelijne-Waver). He received a degree as Handelsingenieur from Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium). He subsequently earned an M.B.A. from the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium), a master's degree in Public Administration from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Cornell University.

Alongside Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Hersh Shefrin, Meir Statman, Robert Shiller and Richard Thaler (with whom he co-wrote the seminal paper “Does the Stock Market Overreact? ” in 1985) [1] [2] De Bondt helped define the field of behavioral (or psychological) finance long before it became popular. He has investigated key research questions such as the intuitive tendency of naïve investors to extrapolate past trends in stock prices and corporate earnings, market overreaction, bubbles, the excessive self-confidence of traders, and their herding instinct. His work has been published in numerous academic journals (including the Journal of Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal, the European Economic Review, and the American Economic Review) and De Bondt has been cited in many European and U.S. news publications, including the Chicago Tribune, [3] [4] [5] Finanz und Wirtschaft, [6] [7] the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, [8] [9] [10] the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, [11] [12] the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, [13] [14] De Standaard, [15] Trends, [16] [17] BNQ Perspectives on banking, [18] Elliott Wave International, [19] LESSAC, [20] De Tijd, [21] [22] [23] the Wall Street Journal and others. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

Professor De Bondt has been a guest on various TV programs including PBS [33] and Kanaal Z with Veronique Goossens. [34] He speaks at many conferences organized by universities and government agencies. [35] He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Journal of Behavioral Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal, the British Accounting Review, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and Behavioral Science & Policy.

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References

  1. ↑ Werner De Bondt, and Richard Thaler, “Does the stock market overreact?,” The Journal of Finance 40, no. 3 (1985): 793-805.According to Google Scholar, this paper has been cited 10642 times.
  2. ↑ Werner De Bondt, and Richard Thaler, “Do security analysts overreact?,” The American Economic Review (1990): 52-57. According to Google Scholar, this paper has been cited 1211 times. Google Scholar
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  31. ↑ Oliver Schaerrer, “Les bulles spéculatives s’articulent en quatre temps,” Le Magazine de la Banque Cantonale de Genève, Autumn 2008. https://www.bcge.ch/pdf/dialogue-automne-2008.pdf
  32. ↑ Piet Depuydt, “Echte leider is morele leider, ook in een bedrijf,” NRC Handelsblad, January 2, 2009.
  33. ↑ NBR interview "Your Mind and Your Money" PBS2, January 16, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1MyBQR7ck
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  35. ↑ CVM (Securities Regulatory Agency of Brazil),"The psychology of regulation," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2016.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LMgHCRZtM
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