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Lecture 1 Introduction Flashcards

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Behavioural Finance

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The study of how psychological phenomena impact financial behaviour and markets

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Real Estate

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the study of the many aspects of land and the buildings on it

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What are standard assumptions of Traditional Finance Theory?

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  • Investors and Managers resemble the Homo Economicus
  • Markets are perfect and informationally efficient
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What are the three views on Market efficiency?

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  1. Efficient Market Fanatic
  2. Behavioral Finance Fanatic
  3. Sensible middle ground
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What are the two characteristics of the Efficient Market Fanatic?

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  • Securities prices are always equal to intrinsic value
  • It is impossible to accurately predict (risk-adjusted returns)
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What are the two characteristics of the Behavioral Finance Fanatic

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  • Stock prices only depend on market psychology
  • it is easy to predict stock price movements
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What are the two characteristics of the Sensible middle ground

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  • Security prices are highly correlated with intrinsic value, but sometimes diverge to a significant degree
  • It is possible to predict (risk-adjusted) returns, but not with great precision
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The Homo Economicus

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Self-regarding maximizer with unlimited and costless information processing capacity and unbreakable willpower

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What are important building blocks of decisions?

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Beliefs (outcomes, probabilities, alternatives)
Preferences

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What are the assumptions of the traditional approach of building blocks of decisions?

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Beliefs are “rational”
Preferences are “normatively acceptable”

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What is the problem with the traditional approach of building blocks of decisions?

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People deviate systematically from rational norms!

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Heuristic

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experience-based rule of thumb or “mental short-cut”

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Why do we use heuristics?

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  • Limited information
  • Limited memory
  • Limited information processing ability
  • Limited time
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What are the two destinctions between two types of thinking?

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  • System1: intuitive and automatic
  • System 2: reflective and deliberate
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What are the 6 characteristics of the intuitive system 1?

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Uncontrolled
Effortless
Associative
Fast
Unconscious
Skilled

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What are the 6 characteristics of the Reflective system 2?

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Controlled
Effortful
Deductive
Slow
Self-aware
Rule-following

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(4) Homo Sapiens: A “wise man”, but with….

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Bounded rationality
Bounded awareness
Bounded willpower
Bounded self-interest

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