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    Behavioural Finance Petere Dybdahl Hede Behavioural finance is an add-on paradigm of finance‚ which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision-making process. Behavioural finance deals with individuals and ways of gathering and using information. Martin Sewell Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behavioural of financial practitioners and subsequent effect on markets. Anastasios Konstantinidis

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    (Hysterically) You have no right to hold me here. Let me out!” (Milgram‚ 1965) You would hope that any decent human being would sympathise and realise that enough is enough. But Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment found that an astonishing 26 out of 40 (Milgram1963) of your average‚ everyday American men would shock an innocent human being to the point of death even after hearing these pleads. In 1963‚ psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to investigate why millions of innocent people were slaughtered

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    A study on Behavioural Finance Problem Statement: To understand how and to what extent markets and investor decisions have been influenced by market moving emotions. Objectives: The main objectives of this research are 1. To understand the roots and origins of behavioural finance. 2. To understand the basic investor psychology‚ components and aspects of the same. 3. To understand the components‚ heuristics and anomalies involved in behavioural finance. 4. To determine according

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    I don’t think this experiment should be replicated today. The reason being is that the Generation we have today has a different mindset and that the experiment is unethical in my view. In 1961‚ Milgram was able to make the participants agree with the experiment. These results led to people trying out these trails because the participants knew the shock would be painful but not dangerous. With that being said‚ it shows you the mindset of the people during that time. People were laid back and were

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    The March on Washington was a very significant event that captured the attention of the United States and the world. More than 250‚000 people came to Washington to demand equality for blacks and to urge Congress to pass civil rights legislation. The March is best remembered for Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream Speech." It was believed that the rally would build support for President Kennedy’s civil rights bill and everyone agreed that it should embrace both blacks and whites. The significance

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    References: Abhijit‚ B. (1992). A Simple Model of Herd Behaviour. The Quarterly Journal of Economics‚ Vol. Arjomand‚ L. (2002). Sampling distribution of the mean. Retrieved December 2‚ 2008‚ from http://business.clayton.edu/arjomand/business/l7.html Benartzi‚ S. Thaler‚ H‚ R. (1995). Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle. The Quarterly Journal of Economics‚ Vol Befring. E (1994). Forskningsmetodik och statistik. Studentlitteratur Lund. Burns‚ A.C.‚ & Bush‚ R.F. (2000). Marketing

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    Megan Randolph RC 250 Marcia Clay 11/3/09 A Summary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Study Stanley Milgram‚ a professor of social psychology‚ conducted a research study beginning in July of 1961. This research measured the willingness of participants to either obey or disobey an authority figuring giving them on a conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram set up this experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict

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    “The contribution of behavioural finance theory is said to be of critical importance in understanding investor behaviour in modern finance” INTRODUCTION According to Gregory Curtis (2004‚ pg 16)‚ Sometime we behave like perfect economic beings. But other times we behave like‚ well‚ human beings. We make decisions on the basis of biases that don’t reflect real world facts. We allow our responses to decisions to depend on how the questions are framed. We engage in complex mental accounting‚ ignoring

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    the whole‚ they are no longer considered individuals but products of conformity. Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ engineered an experiment to test the ordinary person’s level of obedience. Many of Milgram’s colleagues admired his intricate experiment‚ and thought that he provided valid information on the complexity of obedience. One of his colleagues‚ Diana Baumrind‚ however‚ strongly disagreed with Milgram and has good reasons to criticize his experiment. She thought his experiment was unethical

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    In Stanley Milgram’s‚ The Perils of ObedienceMilgram states "obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to."(1) Milgram then shows how submission to that authority goes back as far as Abraham. He makes us look into ourselves and see why we obey these commands against our better judgment. Milgram then goes into detail about the experiment he set up at Yale University to test how much pain a person would inflict on another person just because they were ordered

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