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2010/2011 BA-HA_E144 Behavioural Finance
| English Title | |
| Behavioural Finance |
Course Information | |
| Language | English |
| Point | 7,5 ECTS (225 SAT) |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | One Semester |
| Course Period |
Spring
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| Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
| Max. participants | 60 |
| Study Board |
Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business Administration |
| Course Coordinator | |
| Bjarne Florentsen | |
| Main Category of the Course | |
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Taught under Open University-Taught under open university. | |
| Last updated on 29 maj 2012 | |
| Learning Objectives | |||||
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The course will provide students with an understanding of how human psychology leads to biases and mistakes in the financial decisions of others and potentially of themselves. Through an awareness of these biases and mistakes, students will be better able to mitigate them as finance industry professionals, managers in non-financial firms, and investors of their own money. Objectives: To attain the top grade, students are required to have a good understanding of the major concepts and issues in behavioral finance. This includes the ability to: • Identify and apply psychological concepts to financial markets and financial decision-making. • Compare and contrast behavioral and non-behavioral explanations of financial phenomena. • Apply the psychological and behavioral finance concepts to new problems outside the finance discipline. | |||||
| Prerequisite | |||||
| The course is especially recommended for students in the final year of their bachelor studies with a strong interest in finance and financial decision making. The course requires knowledge of basic financial theory, as acquired for example in a standard corporate finance course. Maximum number of students: 60 (and of this a maximum of 15 bachelor project students) | |||||
| Examination | |||||
| 4 hour open book exam. | |||||
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| Examination | |||||
| The exam is a 4 hour written, open book exam. The exam is PC-based with no internet access. It is possible to write in hand. Following calculators are allowed: Hewlett-Packard: HP10BII and Texas: Texas BAII Plus. | |||||
| Prerequisites for Attending the Exam | |||||
| Course Content | |||||
The objective of the course “Behavioural Finance” is to provide bachelor students with a broad understanding of how human psychology affects financial decisions, with specific reference to the impact on financial markets, corporate finance, and personal financial decisions. | |||||
| Teaching Methods | |||||
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The teaching is interactive and students are expected to participate in class discussions and short experiments. Where an experiment involves real money, participation is voluntary, and those choosing to participate must abide by the stated rules of the experiment. | |||||
| Literature | |||||
Main text: Ackert, Lucy, and Richard Deaves, 2009, Behavioral Finance: Psychology, Decision-Making, and Markets. South-Western Cengage Learning Supplementary readings: Fox, J., 2009, The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. Harper Business, New York Shrefrin, Hersh, 2000, Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing. Oxford University Press Thaler, Richard H., and Cass R. Sunstein, 2009, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Yale University Press Recommended articles: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler, 2007, Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market, Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 129–151 Barber, Brad, and Terrance Odean, 2001, The Internet and the Investor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1): 41-54 Benartzi, Shlomo and Richard H. Thaler, 2007, Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior, Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(3): 81–104 Caginalp, Gunduz, David Porter, and Vernon Smith, 2001, Financial Bubbles: Excess Cash, Momentum, and Incomplete Information, Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2(2): 80-99 Doya, Kenji, 2008, Modulators of decision making, Nature Neuroscience 11(4): 410-416 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2008, The Subprime Mortgage Market: National and Twelfth District Developments, 2007 Annual Report: 6-17 Financial Crisis Interviews, 2011, Various (to be circulated) Garber, Peter M., 1990, Famous First Bubbles, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4(2): 35-54 Hong, Harrison, and Jeremy C. Stein, 2007, Disagreement and the Stock Market, Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 109–128 Hvidkjaer, Soeren, 2008, Small Trades and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Review of Financial Studies 21(3): 1123–1151 Kahneman, Daniel, and Dan Lovallo, 1993, Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking, Management Science 39(1): 17-31 Loewenstein, George, and Richard Thaler, 1989, Anomalies: Intertemporal Choice, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3(4): 181-193 Malmendier, Ulrike, and Geoffrey Tate, 2008, Who makes acquisitions? CEO overconfidence and the market's reaction, Journal of Financial Economics 89(1): 20-43 McClure, Samuel M., David I. Laibson, George Loewenstein, and Jonathan D. Cohen, 2004, Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards, Science 306(5695): 503 – 507 Nocera, Joe, 2008, The Reckoning: As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action, New York Times, 1 October 2008 Odean, Terrance, 1999, Do Investors Trade Too Much? American Economic Review, 89: 1279-1298 Peston, Robert, 2010, Regulators agree 7% capital ratio for banks, BBC News, 9 September 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/09/regulators_agree_7_capital_rat.html Platt, Michael L., and Scott A. Huettel, 2008, Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty, Nature Neuroscience, 11(4): 398-403 Reimers, Stian, Elizabeth A. Maylor, Neil Stewart, and Nick Chater, 2009, Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior, Personality and Individual Differences, 47(8): 973-978 Shiller, Robert J., 2003, From Efficient Markets Theory to Behavioral Finance, Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(1): 83-104 Siegel, Jeremy J., and Richard H. Thaler, 1997, Anomalies: The Equity Premium Puzzle, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(1): 191-200 Sorkin, Andrew R., 2008, Lehman Files for Bankruptcy: Merrill Is Sold, New York Times, 14 September 2008 Thaler, Richard H., 1999, Mental Accounting Matters, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 12: 183-206 Thaler, Richard H., and Eric J. Johnson, 1999, Gambling with the House Money and Trying to Break Even: The Effects of Prior Outcomes on Risky Choice, Management Science 36(6): 643-660 Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman, 1974, Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Science 185(4157): 1124-1131 | |||||