Economics (ECON)
Department of Economics
Faculty of Public Affairs
ECON 4057 [0.5 credit]
Behavioural Financial Economics
Market efficiency and the limits of arbitrage. Heuristics and biases identified by behavioural decision theorists and their effect on the behaviour of managers and investors. Behavioural theories of market trading volume and asset prices. Behavioural approaches to corporate financial economics problems.Prerequisites: ECON 2003 with a grade of C- or higher, and ECON 3050 with a grade of C- or higher.
Lectures three hours a week.
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