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    In business, in the word of investment can be defined as the outflow of money for the purchase of valuable item with an expectation of positive future return or the purchase of equipment or inventory by owner in order to improve future business. (Kahraman, 2011) Moreover, the part of decision-making acts a crucial role in business investment that depends upon the investor’s profit expectation, the availability to finance the investment and the potential cost of assets. (Virlics, 2013) However, risk

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    In business, the word of investment can be defined as the outflow of money for the purchase of valuable item with an expectation of positive future return or the purchase of equipment or inventory by owner in order to improve future business. (Kahraman, 2011) Moreover, the part of decision-making preforms a crucial role in business investment that depends upon the investor’s profit expectation, the availability to finance the investment and the potential cost of asset. (Virlics, 2013) However, risk

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    recalled my logic and critical reasoning class that I had before that discussed bias in argument. However, it was surprising to see that I committed these biases on the quiz, even if I was extremely cautious in my positioning and reasoning based on what I learned from my logic class. Although it may seem that these biases are only caused by an erroneous mistake, a lot of people have the same bias. The percentiles for each bias

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    forecasted in this way. However, judgmental forecasts are vulnerable to several psychological biases. Herbert Simon (1955) argued that humans have limited cognitive resources and use mental rules of thumbs, heuristics, to allow us to produce adequate judgments. Though heuristic approaches are useful and help us make good enough decisions, it allows bias to seep into our judgments. Kahneman and Tversky (1974) identified three heuristics that result in

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    aren’t even fact finders- so long as our view of the world is accurate enough for survival and reproduction, nature is content to let the systematic errors be and may even positively select for them. These systematic errors in reasoning are known as cognitive biases and they allow us to unknowiThirty years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird, Martin Luther King Jr said in his defining “I Have a Dream” speech, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will

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    In Uruguay, between one out of three and one out of four children that enroll in secondary school do not graduate. For a country that used to exhibit high education levels and more than tripled its education expenditure per student in the last ten years, being just above Latin American standards appears as anything but a success. Several studies dug in the cause and nature of such an evolution. One particular finding called for the attention of researchers: the probability of an adolescent leaving

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    Perception is the organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. Like perception, logic plays a role in critical thinking. Critical thinking is the process in which one mentally explores deeper than the superficial matters at hand into the deeper layers in order to find out what the real issues are. However, when it comes to weighing their beneficial impact on the critical thinking process, logic and perception are by no

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    It is justified when an individual would like to make a settling decision in life, the cognitive bias exalts as a reference to make new decisions, and something that happened in the past can be affective in making present decisions. To overcome cognitive bias is not a heavy task, simple you need to identify the bias with knowledge that cognitive bias are things we agree with. Disconfirming the bias would make a difference of mitigation. It is important to note that the environment we leave

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    Cognitive biases impact every area of daily life: choosing which bottle of wine to bring to a dinner party, which job to take, and which partner is a better match are all examples of this. We may succumb to the deliberate placement of an expensive bottle of

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    M11EFA BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE COURSEWORK Name: Thi Thanh Van Mai Student ID: 6026628 What contribution can behavioural finance make to the explanation of stock market bubbles and crashes? Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. The behavioral finance paradigm and its derived explanations of the investors’ beliefs 3 III. Behavioral Theories used in the finance markets 4 IV. Empirical Evidences in the stock markets 6 V. Conclusion 7 VI. References 8 I. Introduction There

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