FIN 6518 Behavioral Corporate Finance
The Behavioral Corporate Finance course explains how psychology impacts the decisions and judgments of corporate managers regarding valuation, capital budgeting, real options, capital structure, payouts, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. The main psychological phenomena are heuristics and biases, framing effects, and affect. Behavioral Corporate Finance identifies the key psychological obstacles to value maximizing behavior, along with steps that managers can take to mitigate the effects of these obstacles. The main goal of the course is to help learners learn how to put the traditional tools of corporate finance to their best use, and mitigate the effects of psychological obstacles that reduce value.