Hersh Shefrin holds the Mario Belotti Chair in the Department of Finance at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. Professor Shefrin is a pioneer of behavioral finance.
These lectures discuss how a particular set of psychological concepts impact judgments and decisions across the financial landscape. The landscape includes financial professionals such as portfolio managers and security analysts, corporate managers, central bankers, as well as ordinary consumers and investors. Topics of special attention will be the implications of psychological pitfalls for market efficiency and financial stability, in the context of the global financial crisis.
Registration for the TI Finance Lectures
You can register by sending an email to vankronenburg@ese.eur.nl
Venue: TI Amsterdam
Maximum number of participants: 50
Registration fee is € 200. Exam fee is € 100. External participants need to send their vitae and a short letter in which they motivate their participation.
For TI MPhil students, participation must be approved by the DGS and is free of charge.
For more information please contact Judith van Kronenburg at vankronenburg@ese.eur.nl
Lecture titles
Lecture 1 – Psychological Foundations of Behavioral Finance
Lecture 2 – Psychological Influences on Portfolio Choice
Lecture 3 – The Market Efficiency Debate
Lecture 4 – Behavioral Asset Pricing Theory
Lecture 5 – Behavioral Corporate Finance
Lecture 6 – Behavioral Dimension of the Global Financial Crisis
