IBF207 Behavioral Finance
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
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| IBF207 | Behavioral Finance | 3 | 0 | 6 | Tue 15.00-15.50 / Th 12.00-13.50 | |||||
| Prerequisite | Junior Standing | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Currently not available |
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| Assistant | Assistant E-mail | |||||||||
| Course Objectives | This course is designed to provide an overview of an exciting new and fast growing area in finance, which takes as its premise that investment decision-making and investor behavior are not necessarily driven by 'rational' considerations but by aspects of personal and market psychology. |
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| Textbook | Beyong Greed and Fear (2002) - Hersh Shefrin and Investments by Zvi Bodie, Alex Cane and Alan J. Marcus | |||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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| Teaching Methods | The methods include lectures (which may involve power point presentation, video and audio aids), student presentations, projects and class discussions. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | |||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Introductory Lecture | |||||||||
| Week 2 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Heuristics- Driven Bias: The First Theme | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Frame Dependence : The Second Theme | Chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 5 | Inefficient markets | Chapters 4 | ||||||||
| Week 6 | Quiz I & Trying to Predict the Market (Chapter 5) | Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 | ||||||||
| Week 7 | Midterm Exam | |||||||||
| Week 8 | Get Eventis: Riding Losers Too Long | Chapter 9 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Portofolios, Pyramids, Emotions and Biases | Chapter 10 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Retirement Saving: Myopis and Self Control | Chapters 11 | ||||||||
| Week 11 | Rationales Managers and Irrational Investors | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 12 | Quiz II, Optimism in Analysts Earnings (Chapter 18) | Chapter 5, 9, 10, 11, 6 | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Corporate Takeovers and the Winner's Curse | Chapter 16 | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Options | Chapter 19 | ||||||||
| Week 15 | Excessive Speculation in Foreign Exchange Markets | Chapter 20 | ||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 | 1,2,3 | |
| Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
| Midterm Exam | 1 | 30 | 1,2,3 | |
| Quiz | 2 | 15 | 1,2,3 | |
| Project | 1 | 15 | 1,2,3 | |
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lecture Hours | 3 | 15 | 45 | Home Study | 2 | 15 | 30 | |||
| Quiz Study | 10 | 2 | 20 | Midterm Exam Study | 25 | 1 | 25 | |||
| Final Exam Study | 30 | 1 | 30 | |||||||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 06/11/2020 | |||||||||