Executive Education

Management Development Programmes [2007-08]

Behavioral finance laboratory

Background:   Behavioral finance provides a framework to better understand investor actions that influence market outcomes. Investors under react, over react or mis-react to corporate announcements that cause violations to market efficiency principles. Modeling and Measuring market reactions and its impact on the returns has multiple uses in corporate finance like design of multi-factor risk models etc.

Objectives:  The main objective of this two-day programme is to equip the participants with theoretical concepts, tools and techniques for modeling investor behavior through hands-on learning, using real life capital market data.

Target audience: Corporate finance managers, investment analysts, fund managers, regulators and researchers.


Date: DEC (to be notified)

Venue: IFMR Chennai

Fee: Rs. 6000/-(Non-residential)

Course Co-ordinator: Prof. C.N.V. Krishnan