課程資訊
課程名稱
行為財務
Behavioral Finance 
開課學期
105-2 
授課對象
管理學院  財務金融學系  
授課教師
胡星陽 
課號
Fin3021 
課程識別碼
703 46000 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期三7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
上課地點
管二305 
備註
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。
總人數上限:80人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1052Fin3021_BF 
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課程概述

Behavioral finance is an emerging paradigm developed over the past twenty years. It differs from traditional finance by recognizing that decision makers can be “irrational” in the sense that their behavior is not consistent with the predictions from standard economic theories. These behavioral biases can generate patterns in investors’ investment decisions, asset prices, corporate investment decisions, and corporate financial decisions. This course will cover both behavioral biases and empirical patterns. 

課程目標
The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of behavioral finance. 
課程要求
There will be both lectures, discussions, and student presentations.
The grading of this course will depend on one examination (30%) and two group projects (35% each). Each group should have three or four students. Please post the name and ID of the group members on CEIBA Discussion Forum 討論看板 by 3/8. For both projects, each group needs to submit a written report by the deadline (maximum ten pages, excluding tables and figures) on CEIBA Assignment作業區. The group project also includes an oral presentation. Beware: You have to identify your quotes and to reference your data sources in your ppt file or written report. You should consult relevant books for the details. Using others’ words without identifying is plagiarism and you will fail the course.) 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
The textbook used is:
Kahneman, Daniel, 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 洪蘭翻譯,快思慢想,天下文化出版社。
Talks at Google: https://youtu.be/CjVQJdIrDJ0
Two Systems of the Mind: https://youtu.be/k4hqvMYBB1c?list=PLHGSvtO7mzbJ_p44ZpJ9LsY6OVnA8j88K 
參考書目
The following are reference books.
邱顯比、朱成志,2010,少犯錯,一生都是投資贏家,天下文化(圖書館沒有)
Akerlof, George A., and Robert J. Shiller, 2015, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, Princeton University Press. 廖月娟翻譯,釣愚:操縱與欺騙的經濟學,天下文化出版社。
Ariely, Dan, 2008, Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions, HarperCollins Publishers, New York. 周宜芳、林麗冠、郭貞伶翻譯,誰說人是理性的!天下文化出版社。
Lowenstein, Roger, 2000, When genius failed: The rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management, New York: Random House. 張文毅譯,天才殞落:華爾街最扣人心弦的風險賭局,藍鯨出版
Szyszka, Adam, 2013, Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets. 圖書館電子書http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137366290.0001.
Thaler, Richard, and Cass Sunstein, 2008, Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness, Yale University Press. 張美惠翻譯,推力:決定你的健康、財富與快樂,時報出版社。 
評量方式
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Exam 
30% 
 
2. 
Group project 1 
35% 
The first project looks at individual irrationality. Look around to give three examples that show or suggest the irrationality of investors. Propose hypotheses that can explain the irrationality. Then design an experiment and collect evidence (real data or questionnaire data) to refute or not to refute your hypotheses. The oral report is at 4/19 and the written report is due at 4/26. 
3. 
Group project 2 
35% 
The second project can be one of the following two things: (1) To look for the implication of investor irrationality on market behaviors. Your objective is to establish an arbitrage position that may be able to exploit investors’ irrationality. Use historical data to simulate its profitability. Discuss its rationale and profit/loss. The grading depends on both discussions and profitability. Do not use spot-derivatives to construct the arbitrage position. (2) To protect investors from their own behavioral biases. Design a standard procedure that investors need to follow in making a financial decision or require a standard information disclosure that financial intermediaries need to make in marketing a financial product. 拿任何一種金融商品為例, 1.找到商品介紹或聽到理專的解說, 2.判斷投資人在看介紹或聽解說時,會著重在哪些地方?容易犯哪些錯誤? 你可以從課堂或課本講的人在行為上會犯的錯誤出發,猜測哪些或許可以適用在你的例子上 找找看有沒有資料可以支持你的猜測。 如果課堂或課本做的實驗和你的情境不一定相同,你也可以設計自己的實驗,找出答案。 3.你要如何減少投資人犯錯的機會? 如果你是主管機關或是投資人保護中心,你會要求商品介紹或理專解說必須做到哪些事,以減少投資人犯錯機會。 如果你要建立一個投資人網站,以保護投資人為主旨,你會怎麼做? The oral report for project 2 is at 6/7 or 6/14 and the written report is due at 6/16. 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/22  Introduction 
第2週
3/01  How do we form our expectations?
Discussion: 1. The Characters of the Story 
第3週
3/08  How do we form our expectations?
Discussion: 7. A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions 
第4週
3/15  問卷調查介紹
What is our objective function?
Discussion: 10. The Law of Small Numbers 
第5週
3/22  What is our objective function?
Discussion: 12. The Science of Availability 
第6週
3/29  Market efficiency
Discussion: 18. Taming Intuitive Predictions 
第7週
4/05  NO CLASS 
第8週
4/12  Market anomalies
Discussion: 20. The Illusion of Validity 
第9週
4/19  Project 1 presentation 
第10週
4/26  Behavioral bias and asset returns
Discussion: 23. The Outside View 
第11週
5/03  Arbitrage cost and investor sentiment 
第12週
5/10  Exam 
第13週
5/17  資料及程式R介紹
Investor behavior 
第14週
5/24  Irrational corporate decisions 
第15週
5/31  No Class (prepare for project 2) 
第16週
6/07  Project 2 presentation 
第17週
6/14  Project 2 presentation