Course Name: Behavioral and Personal Finance

Course abstract

This course will cover the behavioral aspects of financial decision making and personal finance planning. The students shall be introduced to the theoretical, mathematical, and empirical underpinnings of anomalies and biases that investors face in financial markets. The course also focuses the behavioral approach of investment and personal financial planning. Through this course, we do not hope to make you ‘financially literate’ or advise you what to do with your money. Instead, the course will help you explore some of the most common biases and mistakes that we, as individuals, make while dealing with money (or something of that sort). With the help of discussions on related theories, mathematical illustrations, and experimental exercises, participants should be able to become familiar with terminology, techniques and approaches used in behavioralized financial services industry. Most of techniques can also be relevant to traditional financial advisory services, the products and services in the fintech domain, and public policy.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Abhijeet Chandra

As assistant professor at VGSoM, IIT KGP., I offer courses in Corporate Finance, Investment Management, and Management Accounting to UG, PG, and Doctoral level student. I have done BCom. (H), MCom, and PhD in Accounting and Finance area. I also have completed post-doctoral research in behavioral finance and asset pricing. My major research interests are in financial economics (behavioral finance, asset pricing, and economics of derivatives) and individual decision making under risk and uncertainty (prospect theory, risk preferences, irrationality). I do both theoretical and empirical work and am currently also involved in experimental work. The core issues that I have been working on are the study of behavioral dimension of investment decision-making, from both individual and institutional perspectives, and how it affects the asset prices and market mechanism. My research interests are based on the behaviouralized inquiries related to the emerging research area of behavioral finance which draws its ideas from various disciplines including economics, finance, psychology, sociology and so on.
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Teaching Assistant(s)

SUDIPTA MAJUMDAR

P.hD

Aditya Chourasiya

ME/M.Tech

 Course Duration : Jan-Mar 2020
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 Enrollment : 18-Nov-2019 to 03-Feb-2020
 Exam registration : 16-Dec-2019 to 21-Feb-2020
 Exam Date : 29-Mar-2020

Enrolled

5205

Registered

94

Certificate Eligible

68

Certified Category Count

Gold

1

Silver

25

Elite

26

Successfully completed

16

Participation

8

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold




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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 6 out of 8 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Behavioral and Personal Finance - Toppers list

KSHITIJ GAURAV VERMA 90%

P V S H SASTRY 87%

C V R College of Engineering

MANVENDRA SINGH 87%

Central University of Tamil Nadu

NILANJANA DEB 85%

GIRIJANANDA CHOWDHURY INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY,AZARA

SNIGDHA JAIN 85%

Rajasthan college of agriculture

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 5205

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 701

Assignment Statistics



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Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.