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Behavioral Finance
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Portuguese
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Week 1
Welcome to the course! In this first week, we'll look at the classical economic model of consumer choice, which assumes that all of the decisions that we make are sensible, or “rational.” Once we have examined the underlying theory of how people should behave... - Week 2 - Week 2
Welcome to the second week. In this session, we will discover how our minds are inclined to distort probabilities, and either underestimate or overestimate the likelihood of certain outcomes. We’ll also learn about “heuristic-driven bias”: the tendency to use ... - Week 3 - Week 3
In the final week of the course, we will see multiple examples of how mental heuristics can lead us to make predictably sub-optimal financial decisions, both individually and across the entire financial markets. We will also discuss the many ways in which you...
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Emma Rasiel
Associate Chair and Professor
Economics
Editor
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