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Tinbergen Institute Lectures

Psychology Across the Financial Landscape

  • Series
    Finance Lecture Series
  • Speaker(s)
    Hersh Shefrin (Santa Clara University, United States)
  • Field
    Finance
  • Location
    Amsterdam
  • Date

    January 13, 2014 until January 15, 2014

Hersh Shefrin holds the Mario Belotti Chair in the Department of Finance at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. Professor Shefrin is a pioneer of behavioral finance.

These lectures discussed how a particular set of psychological concepts impact judgments and decisions across the financial landscape. The landscape includes financial professionals such as portfolio managers and security analysts, corporate managers, central bankers, as well as ordinary consumers and investors. Topics of special attention will be the implications of psychological pitfalls for market efficiency and financial stability, in the context of the global financial crisis.