Product DescriptionThe thoroughly revised 2nd edition of behavioural finance is designed as a textbook for students of MBA and CFA programme. It will also serve a reference book for investment practitioners and corporate finance executives. The book discusses financial decision-making and financial markets from the perspective of behavioural sciences and allied disciplines. It expounds theories of behavioural finance and explores ways and means of injecting greater rationality in financial and investment decisions making. Salient features: an overview of behavioural finance new and updated content in chapters 2-14 a new mini case on behavioural biases and asset allocation 16 New appendices such as expectations investing process, left brain, right stuff, and the paradox of choice.About the AuthorDr. Prasanna Chandra, Director of Centre for Financial Management, is an MBA, PhD (Finance). He has over five decades of teaching experience in postgraduate and executive education programmes. He was a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore for nearly two decades. He was a visiting professor of finance at Southern Illinois University, USA for two years. He was appointed as a member of several committees including the Capital Issues Advisory Committee, the High Powered Committee on Insurance Sector Reforms, and the SEBI Committee on Derivatives. He has served on the boards of a number of organizations including Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Power Finance Corporation, UTIIAS, ICFAI, SDMIMD, IFCI, IIM (B), Templeton Mutual Fund, Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited, and Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited. He has been a consultant to many organisations.
