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
Prerequisite(s)
NO
Corequisite(s)
NO
Special Requisite(s)
NO
Instructor(s)
Professor Müge Çetiner
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Tuesday , 11:00-12:50, Online
Office Hour(s)
Muge Cetiner Basın Ekspres Camous Deans Office 7’th floor.
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
Financial market anomalies, Several biases in behavioral finance
Online
9. Week
Midterm exam
Online
10. Week
Midterm exam
Oral presentation online
11. Week
Homework presentations
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(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
30
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Demonstrates a basic level of understanding in related disciplines (such as economics, sociology, psychology, quantitative sciences, etc.) that form a foundation for business administration, and makes use of and applies them to the field of business.
PO-2
Applies mathematical, scientific and social knowledge to business problems.
PO-3
Demonstrates a basic level of understanding in business functions and management (such as management, production, marketing, accounting, finance, human resources, behavioural sciences, etc.) and interprets the theoretical arguments focusing on interactions between the actors and the cultures in the field.
PO-4
Determines how to use acquired theoretical and practical knowledge and skills related to business in application and field analysis and applies them.
PO-5
Identifies and evaluates the relations in the field of business; describes the problems and presents analytical solutions through modelling and interpreting (critical thinking).
PO-6
Designs a business process in any functional stage that complies with identified objectives.
PO-7
Develops effective business communication skills (written-verbal/formal-informal).
PO-8
Owns effective working skills individually or on a team in business and multidisciplinary fields.
PO-9
Acts with a sense of professional and ethical responsibility.
PO-10
Improves effective verbal and written communication skills in English, and acquires competence in minimum one foreign language.
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.
