Werner De Bondt

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.

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] the Wall Street Journal and others.^{[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]}

He has also 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.

Published books / monographs

• Financial Accounting and Investment Management, edited book in two volumes, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009
• The Psychology of World Equity Markets, edited book in two volumes, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005
• Earnings Forecasts and Share Price Reversals, AIMR, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1992

Selected published articles

• "After the Crisis: How to Restore Trust in Business and Finance," Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad), 2013
• "The Crisis of 2008 and Financial Reform," Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 2010
• "Style Investing Within the S&P-500 Index," (with H.-L. Chen), Journal of Empirical Finance, 2004
• "Portrait Psychologique de l’Investisseur Individuel en Europe," (with P. Zurstrassen and A. Arzeni), Revue d'Economie Financiėre, 2002
• "A Portrait of the Individual Investor," European Economic Review, 1998
• "R&D Budgets and Corporate Earnings Targets" (with M. Bange), Journal of Corporate Finance, 1998
• "Betting on Trends: Intuitive Forecasts of Financial Risk and Return," International Journal of Forecasting, 1993
• "Do Security Analysts Overreact?" (with R. Thaler), The American Economic Review, 1990
• "Does the Stock Market Overreact?" (with R. Thaler), The Journal of Finance, 1985

References

External links

• Official web page at DePaul University