The Bangladesh Stock Market Crisis of 2010-11: An Economic and Socio-Behavioral Impact Assessment * Lecturer, Department of International Business, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. The author can be reached through e-mail: subornobarua@gmail.com ** Lecturer, Department of International Business, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. *** Lecturer, Department of International Business, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Suborna Barua * Shamsun Arefin ** Md. Rashedur Rahman *** Abstract: Bangladesh stock market has already seen a few shocks in the last 40 years of history. The first big shock was encountered by the participants of the market in 1996. The latest one started from December 2010 and continued through 2011. The 2008 global financial crisis has impacted many financial institutions, business organizations, and thus has drastically downgraded the lives of many people at the individual level. The latest stock market crash in Bangladesh is also not an exception. This study around two thousand investors in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has found a deeper impact of the crisis on the livelihood of many people. Findings suggest a drastic fall of return on investment by more than one-fifty percent. A systematic Chain Impact assessment on investment profit, investment capital, savings, income and finally consumption has been conducted that shows a substantial decrease in the level of income, savings, and consumption of the investors. Moreover, apart from their loss of confidence, health and psychological regularity, investors became more unfriendly in terms of their behavior towards their family, friends or even reluctant to their primary or secondary profession due to the turmoil faced. Keywords: financial crisis, stock market crash, behavioral and social impact. JEL Code: G01, F61, O16 75 Bangladesh Journal of MIS, Volume 6, No 2, June, 2014 1. Introduction "Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives." Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Author of "The Black Swan" A Mathematical Trader, and Professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York University