MBA 6362 - Financial Forecasting and Behavioral Finance

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance to the MBA Program or the Graduate Certificate Program in Finance.
Behavioral finance combines the quantitative methods from traditional finance with research in cognitive psychology. This course is designed to provide students with a broad knowledge on how to model historical information and human factors in business forecasting techniques. Students will be able to summarize how behavioral finance complements the traditional finance paradigm with a special focus on the existence and impact of diverse behavioral biases in financial decision-making. The course will adopt an applications oriented approach so that students will be able to explain their financial decision under conditions of uncertainty. The course will provide students with a framework that will be useful in business settings where such analyses are routinely made.

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