Pre-requisite: QSTFE 712 or QSTFE 722 or QSTFE 723. Behavioral finance is an area of finance that started with some psychologists interested in decision making in finance and economics and observed that some of the assumptions standard in finance were not consistent with the behavior of agents. Following this lead, economics and finance scholars used these tools to try to explain some of the patterns in investment decisions and financial prices that the standard paradigm could not explain. This course is an overview of these findings with a practical focus on current events in financial markets and how behavioral finance could help to understand them.

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