MVV4168K Investment Strategies - Behavioral Finance for Non-Economists

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Martin Svoboda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Martin Svoboda, Ph.D.
Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Supplier department: Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MP301Zk National Economy || TYP_STUDIA(D)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 68/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 68/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course builds upon the traditional financial knowledge cultivated at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University during the interwar period, in the form of financial propaedeutics, especially for students enrolled in programs accredited by the current Faculty of Law. The course is based on the concept of behavioral finance and introduces students to the genesis of this financial field, its causes of emergence, and focuses on investment decision-making strategies with practical applications. The subsequent modules of the course focus on investor behavior, speculative bubbles, phases of the decision-making process, bounded rationality in perception and processing of information, and the utilization of insights from behavioral finance within financial advisory. The course concludes by addressing current issues pertaining to behavioral finance in unpredictable situations arising from global and domestic political and economic crises.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to: navigate the field of behavioral finance; understand the principles of irrational investor behavior; recognize behavioral investment biases; utilize behavioral finance in practice, financial decision-making, or individual investing. The course graduate will have a better understanding of the purpose and needs of private and public regulation as well as strategic thinking in the field of finance.
Syllabus
  • Capital market theory, market anomalies, investor behavior, phases of the investment decision-making process, investment vs. speculation.
Literature
    required literature
  • Materiály vkládané do interaktivní osnovy a studijních materiálů
    recommended literature
  • THALER, Richard H. Neočekávané chování : příběh behaviorální ekonomie. Translated by Jan Kalandra. Vydání první. Praha: Argo, 2017, 377 stran. ISBN 9788073638382. info
  • Behavioral finance and investor typesmanaging behavior to make better investment decisions. Edited by Michael M. Pompian. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012, xxi, 232 p. ISBN 9781118221815. info
  • KAHNEMAN, Daniel. Myšlení - rychlé a pomalé. Translated by Eva Nevrlá. Vydání první. V Brně: Jan Melvil, 2012, 542 stran. ISBN 9788087270424. URL info
  • THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. SUNSTEIN. Nudge (šťouch) : jak postrčit lidi k lepšímu rozhodování o zdraví, majetku a štěstí. Vydání první. Zlín: Kniha Zlin, 2010, 309 stran. ISBN 9788087162668. info
Teaching methods
Combination of lectures, exercises (addressing specific tasks), guided discussion
Assessment methods
Completion of a course: colloquium For the successful completion of the course by the colloquium the following conditions are given: 1. Participation in teaching module (no less than 10 modules). 2. Student activity in addressing the challenges of teaching modules. 3. Working out and presentation of the result of seminar paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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