This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics.
This book rehabilitates beta as a definition of systemic risk by using particle physics to evaluate discrete components of financial risk.
This survey of portfolio theory, from its modern origins through more sophisticated, “postmodern” incarnations, evaluates portfolio risk according to the first four moments of any statistical distribution: mean, variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis.