Peter Bossaerts

Articles

• “The Human Brain Encodes Event Frequencies While Forming Subjective Beliefs,” , with Mathieu d’ Acremont and Wolfram Schultz, Journal of Neuroscience, in press., 2013
• “In the Mind of the Market: Theory of Mind Biases Value Computation During Financial Bubbles” , with Benedetto de Martino, John O’Doherty, Deb Ray and Colin Camerer, Neuron, in press., 2013
• “The Neural Representation of Unexpected Uncertainty During Value-Based Decision Making,” , with Elise Payzan, Simon Dunne and John O’Doherty, Neuron, in press, 2013
• “Testing Theories Of Investor Behavior Using Neural Data” , with Cary Frydman, Nick Barberis, Colin Camerer and Antonio Rangel, Journal of Finance, in press, 2013
• “Risk and Reward Preferences Under Time Pressure” , with A. Nursimulu, Review of Finance, in press, 2013
• “Evidence for model-based computations in the human amygdala during Pavlovian conditioning,” , with Charlotte Prévost, Dan McNamee, Ryan Jessup and John O’Doherty, PLoS Computational Biology 2013 (9)., 2013
• “Activity in inferior parietal and medial prefrontal cortex signals the accumulation of evidence in a probability learning task” , with M. d’Acremont and E. Fornari, PLoS Computational Biology 2013 (9)., 2013
• “Decision Making: How The Brain Weighs The Evidence,” , with M. d’Acremont, Current Biology 2012 (22), 1641-48 (Dispatch)., 2012
• “Risk, Unexpected Uncertainty, and Estimation Uncertainty: Bayesian Learning in Unstable Sttings,” , Peter Bossaerts, PLoS Computational Biology 7 (1), e1001048. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001048, 2011
• “Hedging your bets by learning about reward correlations in the human brain” , with Klaus Wunderlich, Mkael Symmunds and Ray Dolan, Neuron 2011 (71), 1141-52., 2011
• “Separate Encoding of Intuition-Based and Reason-Based Subjective Valuations In The Human Brain”, with Ulrik Beierholm, Cedric Anen and Steven Quartz , NeuroImage 2011 (58), 955-62, 2011
• “The human prefrontal cortex mediates integration of potential causes behind observed outcomes” , with Klaus Wunderlich, Ulrik Beierholm and John O'Doherty , Journal of Neurophysiology 2011 (online pre-print), 2011
• “Differentiable Contributions of Human Amygdalar Subregions in the Computations Underlying Reward and Avoidance Learning,” , with C. Prévost, J.A. McCabe, R.K. Jessup and J. O’Doherty, European Journal of Neuroscience 2011 (34), 1-12 (featured article)., 2011
• “The Affective Impact of Financial Skewness on Neural Activity and Choice” , with C. Wu and B. Knutson , PLoS One 2011 (6) doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0016838, 2011
• Risk and risk prediction error signals in anterior insula., Bossaerts Peter, Brain structure & function, 2010, 214(5-6), 645 - 53
• A behavioral and neural evaluation of prospective decision-making under risk., Symmonds Mkael, Bossaerts Peter, Dolan Raymond, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010, 30(43), 14380 - 9
• “MAOA-L carriers are better at making optimal financial decisions under risk” , with Cary Frydman, Antonio Rangel and Colin Camerer , Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2010 doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2304, 2010
• “Exploring the Nature of Trading Intuition” , with Antoine Bruguier and Steve Quartz , Journal of Finance, 65 (2010), 1703-23, 2010
• “What Decision Neuroscience Teaches Us About Financial Decision Making”, Peter Bossaerts, Annual Review of Financial Economics 2009 (1), 383-404, 2009
• “Neural Correlates of Value, Risk and Risk Aversion Contributing to Decision Making under Risk” , with G. Christopoulos, P. Tobler, R. Dolan and W. Schultz , Journal of Neuroscience 29 (2009), 12574-83, 2009
• “Decision Making in Financial Markets” , in: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Eds. L. Squire, T. Albright, F. Bloom, F. Gage and N. Spitzer , Elsevier, 2009, 339-346, 2009
• Human Insula Activation Reflects Risk Predictions Errors As Well As Risk, Bossaerts P., Preuschoff K., Quartz S., Journal of Neuroscience, 2008, 28, 2745 - 2752
• Markowitz in the Brain?, Bossaerts P., Preuschoff K., Quartz S., Revue d' Economic Politique, 2008, 75 - 96
• Investigating Signal Integration with Canonical Correlation Analysis of fMRI Brain Activation Data, Bossaerts P., Bruguier A., Preuschoff K., Quartz S., NeuroImage, 2008, 41, 35 - 44
• Neural Correlates of Mentalizing-Related Computations During Strategic Interactions in Humans, Hampton A, O'Doherty J, Bossaerts P, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, 105, 6741 - 6746
• “Explicit Neural Signals Reflecting Reward Uncertainty” , with W. Schultz, K.Preuschoff, C. Camerer, M. Hsu, C.D. Fiorillo, and P. Tobler , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 (363), 3801-3811, 2008
• “Neurobiological Studies of Risk Assessment: A Comparison of Expected Utility and Mean-Variance Approaches” , with M. d’Acremont , Journal of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 8 (2008), 363-374, 2008
• “The Neurobiological Foundations of Valuation in Human Decision Making under Uncertainty” , with Ming Hsu and K. Preuschoff, in: Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, Ed. P.W. Glimcher, C.F. Camerer, E.Fehr, R.A. Poldrack , New York: Academic Press (2008), 2008
• Neural antecedents of financial decisions, B. Knutson and P. Bossaerts, Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 27, 8174 - 8177
• Human imagination in financial markets with insiders, P. L. Bossaerts, A. Bruguier, and S. Quartz, Neuroscience Research, 2007, 58, S5 - S5
• Adding Prediction Risk to the Theory of Reward Learning, Bossaerts P., Preuschoff K., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, 1104, 135 - 146
• Reinforcement Learning Signals in the Human Striatum Distinguish Learners from Nonlearners during Reward-Based Decision Making, Schonberg, T, Daw, N, Joel, D and O'Doherty J.P, Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 27(47), 12860 - 12867
• Prices and Allocations in Financial Markets: Theory, Econometrics, and Experiments, Bossaerts P, Plott C, Zame W, Econometrica, 2007, 75, 993 - 1038
• The Role of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Abstract State-Based Inference During Decision Making in Humans, Bossaerts P., Hampton A., O'Doherty J., The Journal of Neuroscience, 2006, 26(32), 8360 - 8367
• Neural Differentiation of Expected Reward and Risk in Human subcortical Structures, Bossaerts P., Preuschoff K., Quartz S., Neuron, 2006, 51, 381 - 390
• Asset Trading Volume in Infinite-Horizon Economics with Dynamically Complete Markets and Heterogeneous Agents: Comment, Bossaerts P., Zame W., Finance Research Letters, 2006, 3, 96 - 101

Books

• "Predicting Risk in a Multiple Simulus - Multiple Reward Environment" , with Mathieu d'Acremont and Manfred Gilli, in: Reward And Decision Making, ed. J.C. Dreher and L. Tremblay , Academic Press, 2009
• From Market Jaws to the Newton Method: The Geometry of How a Market Can Solve Systems of Equations in Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, Plott C, Bossaerts P (Plott C and Smith VL eds), Amsterdam:North-Holland, 2008
• Lecture Notes in Corporate Finance (Second Revised Edition) , P. Bossaerts, Bernt Arne Odegaard, World Scientific Publlishing , 2007
• Adding prediction risk to the theory of reward learning, K. Preuschoff and P. Bossaerts, LDMU-BOOK-2007-001, 2007
• Neuro-Economics of Decision Making: Decision Making in Financial Markets in New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Bossaerts P. (Squire L., Albright T., Bloom F., Gage F., Spitzer N. eds), Elsevier, 2007
• The Paradox of Asset Pricing (Frontiers of Economic Research) , P. Bossaerts, Princeton University Press, 2002

International Conferences

• Peter Bossaerts, "The Neurobiology Behind Human Decision Making " , 2013 Finance Down Under Conference, Melbourne (Australia), 2013/03
• Peter Bossaerts, "The Human Brain Behind Financial Skill" , Second Miami Behavioral Finance Conference, 2012/12
• Peter Bossaerts, "The Human Brain Behind Financial Skill" , Joint Symposium, National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei (Taiwan), 2012/03
• Peter Bossaerts, "The Human Brain Behind Financial Skill" , Swiss Finance Institute Annual Meeting, 2011/11
• Peter Bossaerts, "Neurobiological Foundations of Decision Making under Uncertainty" , Finance Down Under: Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance , University of Melbourne, Australia, 2011/03
• Peter Bossaerts, “What Decision Neuroscience Teaches Us about Financial Decision Making,”, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Lecture, Claremont McKenna College, 2010/03
• Peter Bossaerts, "Neuroscience and Decision Making," , A Birdseye View of Finance: Past, Present, and Future Frontiers, Conference organized in honor of Haim Levy, Jerusalem, 2009/08
• Peter Bossaerts, "Strategic Uncertainty In Games and Markets: A Neuroeconomic Perspective" , 5th International Meeting On Experimental And Behavioral Economics, Granada (Spain), 2009/04
• Peter Bossaerts, "Potential Policy Implications of Neuroeconomics" , The Social Brain, symposium organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA) and the Wellcome Trust , London, 2009/01
• Peter Bossaerts, "Decision Making under Uncertainty: Risk and Risk Learning" , Building Bridges in Medical Sciences , Cambridge University Medical School, 2008/11
• Peter Bossaerts, "The Neuroeconomics of Decision Making", World Economic Forum , Geneva, 2008/09
• Peter Bossaerts, Neurobiological Foundations of Perception and Decision under Uncertainty, International Economic Science Association Conference, California Institute of Technology, 2008/06
• Peter Bossaerts, Neurobiological Foundations of Perception and Decision under Uncertainty, 4th Asia Pacific Meeting of the Economic Science Association, National University of Singapore, 2008/02
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, Neurobiological Foundations of Perception and Decision under Uncertainly, 9th Biennial Symposium "Neuroeconomics:Decision Making and the Brain", New York University Center for Neural Science, 2008/01
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, The Neuroeconomics of Decision Making, 30th Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society, 2007/09
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, The Neuroeconomics of Decision Making, Second ESA Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, Osaka, Japan, 2007/02
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, Neuro-Finance, Gutmann Public Lecture, Vienna, Austria, 2006/12
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, The Paradox of Asset Pricing, Stanford-Tsukuba Conference, 2006/03
• Peter Bossaerts, Keynote speech, Experimental Financial Markets, EIASM, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2005/12

Patents

• Method and an Apparatus for Providing A Market Environment, Peter Bossaerts, Walter Yuan, Raj Advani, U.S. Patent Application No. 11/531,683, 2008

Awards

• Review of Finance 2004 GSAM Best Research Paper Award for the paper Basic Principles of Asset Pricing Theory: Evidence From Large-Scale Experimental Financial Markets., Peter Bossaerts, 2004
• Journal of Financial Markets 2003 Best Paper Award for the paper "Excess Demand and Equilibration in Multi-Security Financial Markets: The Empirical Evidence, Peter Bossaerts, 2003

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