The purpose of the course behavioral finance is to help understand why people make certain financial choices and how those choices can affect financial markets
Basic Rules related to Financial Management, development of behavioral finance
Oral presentation online
3. Week
Basic rules related to financial markets and instruments, Finance theories
Oral presentation online
4. Week
Asssumptions of behavioral finance, Relationship Between Behavioral Finance and Other Sciences
Oral presentation online
5. Week
Behavioral Trends that Prevent Individuals from
Making Rational Investment Decisions, Cognitive Anomalies, heuristics,emotional errors, herd behaviour
Oral presentation online
6. Week
Biases
Oral presentation online
7. Week
Biases continued
Oral presentation online
8. Week
Midterm exam
Online
9. Week
Midterm exam
Online
10. Week
Financial market anomalies, Several biases in behavioral finance
Oral presentation online
11. Week
Guest speaker
online conference
12. Week
Homework presentations
Oral presentation online
13. Week
Homework presentations
Oral presentation online
14. Week
Homework presentations
Oral presentation online
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
40
Attendance
1
10
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Comprehends both theoretical and applied subjects in international trade at the advanced level, and uses his/her knowledge when necessary.
PO-2
Analyses basic concepts and data related to International Trade and Economics by scientific methods, interprets those with analytically, and evaluates those with regard to economic issues.
PO-3
Express his/her thoughts, comments and evaluations related to International Trade discipline both in written and oral forms.
PO-4
Defines current problems, and proposes solutions which are supported by evidence and research based quantitative and qualitative data.
PO-5
Inspects how public and private sector enterprises engaged in trade activities operates in practice, and evaluates the continuities and the dynamism in these sectors.
PO-6
Defines and tracks local, regional (such as European Union or Middle East) and global issues from the point of political economics, and relates these issues to each other.
PO-7
Possesses sufficient knowledge in other disciplines related to International Trade (such as Economics, Finance, International Business and Law), and reports this information.
PO-8
Follows publications and research in International Trade, Globalisation and Financial Systems in the English language, and communicates with his/her colleagues internationally.
PO-9
Uses a second language (Russian, Chinese, etc.) at the intermediate level.
PO-10
Possesses ethical principles and scientific values in collection, interpretation and release of data.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Understand and apply the main concepts, research tools and methodologies of behavioural finance that help to reveal biases, heuristics, etc. in the decision making process on individual, corporate and financial market level.
LO-2
Present the main results in the field of behavioural finance focusing on financial market processes including market anomalies.
LO-3
Explore behavioural corporate finance, considering financial, investment and dividend policy decisions and contrasting traditional and behavioural approaches.
LO-4
Research, prepare and present behavioral finance biases.
