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Behavioral Finance

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Course ID: 2600-MSFRdz2BFen
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: Behavioral Finance
Name in Polish: Behavioral Finance
Organizational unit: Faculty of Management
Course groups: (in Polish) Konwersatoria English dla MSM i MSZFR dzienne
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): (not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: English
Type of course:

obligatory courses

Mode:

Remote learning

Full description:

• Classical theory of finance and behavioral finance

• The genesis of behavioral finance (schools)

• Perspective theory and determinants of reality perception

• Decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty

• Process of supporting investment decisions (social trading).

• Fortune telling and forecasting - analysis of research on the impact of forecasts on the market

• The importance of volatility and liquidity

• Identification of behavioral factors

• Selected stock exchange anomalies

• Information and the concept of noise in financial markets

• Behavioral bias - introduction

• Behavioral bias of stock investors

• Stock market sentiment indexation (The VIX (volatility index))

• Selected models of behavioral finance

Bibliography:

Podstawowa pozycja:

1. Szyszka, A., Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets. How Psychology Influences Investors and Corporations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013,

2. Michael M. Pompian, Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management How to B, John Wiley and Sons; 2nd Revised edition, 2012,

3. Baddeley, M., Behavioural Economics and Finance (r. 4-10) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013,

4. MacKenzie D., An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets, MIT Press, Cambridge 2006.

Literatura uzupełniająca:

1. Fama, E., Efficient capital markets: a review of theory and empirical work. Journal of Finance, 25, 1970.

2. MacKenzie D., An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets, MIT Press, Cambridge 2006.

3. H. Kent Baker, John R. Nofsinger, Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets, John Wiley & Sons, 2010

4. Michael M. Pompian, Behavioral Finance and Wealth Management How to B, John Wiley and Sons; 2nd Revised edition, 2012

Learning outcomes: (in Polish)

Wykład, przykłady z praktyki, interaktywne wyjaśnienie kluczowych pojęć, ćwiczenia, studia przypadków, projekt (praca w grupach).

Assessment methods and assessment criteria: (in Polish)

Kolokwium (test) – 60%, 40%, projekt (praca w grupach)

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