Master 2024/2025

Behavioral Finance:Applications in Business Analytics

Type: Elective course (Master of Business Analytics)

Area of studies: Finance and Credit

Delivered by: Master's Programmes Curriculum Support

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 2 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: distance learning

Online hours: 20

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Anastasia N. Stepanova

Master’s programme: Магистр аналитики бизнеса

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Behavioral Finance, exploring how psychological biases and irrational behaviors influence financial markets, corporate decisions, and investment strategies. Moving beyond traditional finance theories, the curriculum examines real-world market anomalies, investor psychology, and the implications of bounded rationality in business and policy contexts