http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ Knowledge@Wharton is an online resource that offers the latest business insights, information, and research from a variety of sources. Content includes analysis of current business trends, interviews with industry leaders and faculty, articles based on the most recent business research, book reviews, conference and seminar reports, and links to other websites. en-us Copyright (c) 2012 The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/tobacman_jeremy.jpg http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/ 125 45 Wharton Faculty Research Finance and Investment http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2383&source=rss Once on the academic fringes, behavioral economics has been gaining considerable ground over the past year. While not all economists, government policy makers and corporate financiers agree wholeheartedly with behavioral economists' assertion that markets are inefficient and irrational, it's difficult in the wake of the global financial meltdown to be too dismissive of it, according to some Wharton faculty members. It's likely, they say, that future regulations will be shaped in part by both behavioral economics and the efficient market theory, which has dominated government policymaking since the early 1980s. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:18:47 EST Finance and Investment http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2204&source=rss Emotion not only helped lead America into the current economic crisis but may also be helping to keep it there. At a recent conference called, "Crisis of Confidence: The Recession and the Economy of Fear," sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychiatry and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, an interdisciplinary panel explored the psychology behind today's economy. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:21:37 EST