INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANCY ARUSHA IN COLLABORATION WITH COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (UK) Master of Science in Finance and Investment 2011/12 M11EFA Behavioural Finance Coursework Assignment INSTRUCTION 1) This assignment has THREE QUESTIONS. Students are required to choose ONE QUESTION and answer it. 2) This assignment is an INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT. 3) The assignment carries a total weight of 50 MARKS. 4) Students are expected to use academic journal articles to answer these questions. Wikipedia and Investopedia
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The occurrence of stock market bubbles and crashes is often cited as evidence against the efficient market hypothesis. It is argued that new information is rarely‚ if ever‚ capable of explaining the sudden and dramatic share price movements observed during bubbles and crashes. Samuelson (1998) distinguished between micro efficiency and macro efficiency. Samuelson took the view that major stock markets are micro efficient in the sense that stocks are (nearly) correctly priced relative to each other
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Herd Behaviour‚ Bubbles and Crashes Author(s): Thomas Lux Source: The Economic Journal‚ Vol. 105‚ No. 431 (Jul.‚ 1995)‚ pp. 881-896 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Royal Economic Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2235156 . Accessed: 09/03/2015 04:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚
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“The contribution of behavioural finance theory is said to be of critical importance in understanding investor behaviour in modern finance” INTRODUCTION According to Gregory Curtis (2004‚ pg 16)‚ Sometime we behave like perfect economic beings. But other times we behave like‚ well‚ human beings. We make decisions on the basis of biases that don’t reflect real world facts. We allow our responses to decisions to depend on how the questions are framed. We engage in complex mental accounting‚ ignoring
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Behavioural Finance Martin Sewell University of Cambridge February 2007 (revised April 2010) Abstract An introduction to behavioural finance‚ including a review of the major works and a summary of important heuristics. 1 Introduction Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behaviour of financial practitioners and the subsequent effect on markets. Behavioural finance is of interest because it helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient. For more information
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Anomalies to Efficient Market Hypothesis and the extent to which they can be explained by behavioural finance theories Finance that is based on rational and logical theories‚ such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). These theories assume that people‚ for the most part‚ behave rationally and predictably. The Efficient market hypothesis assumes that financial markets incorporate all public information and assets that share prices reflect all relevant
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What contribution can behavioural finance make to the explanation of stock market bubbles and crashes? Introduction Efficient markets hypothesis markets can adjust by themselves‚ because there are rational and irrational investors. But stock bubbles and crashes just like evils followed the world global economy in last decades. Readhead (2008) suggested that behavioural finance applies the psychology of decision-making to investment behaviour‚ and it can be useful to show the irrational
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Behavioural Finance: How Investor Reacts in Decision Involving Risk? ABSTRACT Behavioral finance is a new field in economics that has recently become a subject of significant interest to investors. This article provides a general discussion of behavioral Finance .In this article survey is made between two different groups of investors. This article shows how we behave or the psychology when we make decisions involving risk‚ or in the possibility of loss .This article also throw some light on
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Behavioural Finance Petere Dybdahl Hede Behavioural finance is an add-on paradigm of finance‚ which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision-making process. Behavioural finance deals with individuals and ways of gathering and using information. Martin Sewell Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behavioural of financial practitioners and subsequent effect on markets. Anastasios Konstantinidis
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Jönköping International Business School Jönköping University B eh avioral F i nance Investors’ Rationality Bachelor Thesis within Finance Authors: Bernéus‚ Hannes Sandberg‚ Carl Wahlbeck‚ David Tutor: Jönköping Österlund‚ Urban December‚ 2008 Acknowledgement We would like to thank our tutor Mr. Urban Österlund for his support and guidance. We are also grateful for all valuable comments and insights from our fellow students during seminar sessions. We would also like to present
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