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title: Behavioral Finance in Factor Investing
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5137986/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5137986
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5137986
featured: 2025-02-26
citations: unknown
topic: Asset Pricing & Factors
---


# Behavioral Finance in Factor Investing

The paper discusses how cognitive biases lead to systematic mispricing in financial markets and how these biases can be incorporated into asset pricing models.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5137986
- Identifier: SSRN 5137986
- Released: 2025-02-18
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 86 (2025-02-26): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-02-26/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Asset Pricing & Factors

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