Teaching Interest
Teaching Interest
Behavioral Finance (Econ 970, Spring 2015)
Description
Second-year undergraduate course covering recent advances in the field of behavioral finance. The course begins by examining some of the most canonical pricing anomalies, such as claims to identical cashflows trading at different prices in different markets, and reprinting of five-months-old news leading to a large market reaction, irrelevant name changes boosting companies’ prices. Research covered in the class addresses the reasons that allow such mispricing to occur and persist. The course introduces the students to reading and critically evaluating research articles, and is heavily discussion-based.