BA4007 Behavioral Finance Syllabus:
BA4007 Behavioral Finance Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVE :
To identify and understand systematic behavioral factors that influences the investment behavior.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION: WHY BEHAVIORAL FINANCE
The role of security prices in the economy – EMH – Failing EMH – EMH in supply and demand framework – Equilibrium expected return models – Investment decision under uncertainty – Introduction to neoclassical economics and expected utility theory – Return predictability in stock market – Limitations to arbitrage
UNIT II DECISION AND BEHAVIORAL THEORIES
Nash Equilibrium: Keynesian Beauty Context and The Prisoner’s Dilemma – The Monthly Hall Paradox – The St. Petersburg Paradox – The Allais Paradox – The Ellsberg Paradox – Prospects theory – CAPM – behavioral portfolio theory – SP/A theory – brief history on rational thought – pasacl – Fermat to Friedman – savage
UNIT III DECISION MAKING BIASES
Information screening bias – Heuristics and behavioral biases of investors – Bayesian decision making – cognitive biases – forecasting biases – emotion and neuroscience – group behaviour – investing styles and behavioral finance
UNIT IV ARBITRAGEURS
Definition of arbitrageur – Long-short trades – Risk vs. Horizon – Transaction costs and short-selling costs – Fundamental risk – Noise-trader risk – Professional arbitrage – Destabilizing informed trading
UNIT V MANAGERIAL DECISIONS
Supply of securities and firm investment characteristics (market timing, catering) by rational firms – Associated institutions – Relative horizons and incentives – Biased managers
TOTAL :45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES :
1. Understanding the need of behavioral finance
2. Knowing about various decision and behavioral theories
3. Learn about heuristic and behavioral biases of investors
4. Analyse and understand about arbitragers and managerial decision
5. Thorough understanding about the price discovery in markets
REFERENCES :
1. Shleifer, Andrei (2000). Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2. Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky (eds.). (1982) Judgment under
Uncertainty: Heuristics and biases, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.