FinanceProfessor Podcast
1) Intro to Racism for Behavioral Economics class (MBA 639)
A class introduction (no numbers) to the Racism topic. Frankly, I don't think it is great, but for such an important topic it did need an introduction. Short version: racism is really bad, but sti...Show More
2) An overview of why/how behavioral biases can influence investors' returns
WHen most people think of behavioral finance, they think of the material we will cover in this section. It is a look at how biases can impact investor returns. We will look at bubbles, excessive tra...Show More
3) Behavioral CORPORATE finance: How behavioral finance affects firms
Most work in the field of behavioral finance focuses on the investment side of the fence. That is unfortunate as managers are people too and they fall prey to many of the same biases that investors d...Show More
4) Behavioral Econ/Finance outside of finance
From Marketing to politics., from Healthcare to Education, from International Development to treating addictions, the things we learned in Behavioral Finance and Economics can be used to help make th...Show More
5) Scarcity in two parts: Scarcity as in tunneling/Lack of Bandwidth and Scarcity as in Poverty
This episode gives a short introduction into the two concepts covered in this part class:The concept of Scarcity as described in Mullainathan and Shafer's great book: Scarcity: The New Science of Havi...Show More
6) Behavioral Finance: introduction to the brain, neuroscience, and neurotransmitters
While this is not a science class, we do need to have an understanding of the various parts of the brain, how we look at the brain, and how what we do (or don't do) can influence the brain and our dec...Show More
Behavioral Finance: introduction to the brain, neuroscience, and neurotransmitters
15:22 | Jul 18th, 2017
7) Behavioral Finance MBA 639 Introduction to Biases
This is an introduction to behavioral biases. The short version: thinking is hard. It can take time and effort. So we have evolved to come up with shortcuts and biases that do not always help us w...Show More
8) Behavioral Finance Introduction for MBA 639
An Introduction to Behavioral Finance and Behavioral Economics at St. Bonaventure University. It is tailored to MBA 639 but can be listened to by anyone. Not sure what happened to the audio quality....Show More
9) Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2
Hostile takeover defenses. Takeover waves. Still no voice, but a little better. how to fight acquisitions Pre-bid defenses:Maximize Shareholder value!Shark repellentsSuper majority: For a takeover,...Show More
10) Trends in Finance and Economics
In an attempt to wrap up MBA 610, I made a list of things on the horizon. It was a tough list to make. A few things that were really close: FinTech, raising interest rates, the role of government in...Show More