Syllabus
Course Code: FM-403 Course Name: Specialisation-A: FINANCE - Behavioral Finance |
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MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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1 | Conceptual, theoretical foundations and evolution of behavioral finance, Nature and scope of behavioral finance, behavioral finance and conventional finance: A comparison. Understanding Investor psychology: Beliefs, Attitude, Learning, Herding, Momentum, Biases and Heuristics, Over-confidence and optimism, winners’ curse, over reaction and under reaction and cross-cultural behavior. Investor Preferences: Framing, Irrationality and violation of expected utility, mental accounting, Prospect theory and attention, Saving behavior. Investment anomalies: Accounting based anomalies, Calendar anomalies, Attention based anomalies: Value v/s Growth, size, equity premium, myopia in investment decision making. Behavioral Corporate Finance: Introduction, limits to Arbitrage, aggregation. Contemporary issues in Behavioral Finance. |