Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
C255019 Behavioural Finance 3.0 3
Description This course introduces how psychological biases affect managers' financial (and other) decision making processes. The psychological biases include excessive optimism, overconfidence, confirmation bias, illusion of control, representativeness, availability bias, anchoring, framing, loss aversion…etc. In addition, this course is also to discuss the related financial literature and apply the psychological theory of individual behaviour to the financial markets.