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Behavioral Finance Quiz 1

Total questions: 6

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Assume you purchased Applesoft Inc. on March 1, 2008 and want to sell it since it increased in price. After a quick thought you recognize that you bought it earlier, in Dec. 2007. Now you decide to keep Applesoft Inc. instead. How is this behavior called?

a)

Overconfidence

b)

Disposition Effect

c)

Loss Aversion

d)

Seasonality

2.

What is true about (Behavioral) Finance?

a)

Less than fully rational behavior.

b)

Limits of arbitrage are possible.

c)

Perfect information processing.

d)

Mispricings are possible.

3.

Assume you are offered to play a lottery that pays $0 with a probability of 0.9 and $1,000 with a probability of 0.1 (Option A). Your second option is to receive a certain amount of $100 (Option B). What option would you choose if you were risk-averse (without knowing the precise utility function)?

a)

Option A

b)

Option B

4.

Recall the mean posterior belief from the Normal-Normal-Model of Bayesian Updating:
 s1σ21σ2+1τ2+μ01τ21σ2+1τ2s\cdot\frac{\frac{1}{\sigma^2}}{\frac{1}{\sigma^2}+\frac{1}{\tau^2}}+\mu_0\cdot\frac{\frac{1}{\tau^2}}{\frac{1}{\sigma^2}+\frac{1}{\tau^2}} 

 What is the meaning of the term
 1σ21σ2+1τ2\frac{\frac{1}{\sigma^2}}{\frac{1}{\sigma^2}+\frac{1}{\tau^2}}  ?

a)

Signal

b)

Weight on the prior belief

c)

Prior belief

d)

Weight on the signal

5.

In class, you learned about mispricings resulting from spin-offs. What possible reasons can explain this phenomenon?

a)

Currency Risk

b)

Taxation

c)

Noise Trader Risk

d)

Liquidity

6.

Bonus Question (Level: Hard)

Firm A plans to spin off its wholly owned subsidiary, Firm B. Stockholders of A will receive 1.5 shares of B for each share of A. After the IPO of B, the following market prices are observed:

A: $80 B: $70

What is the correct "stub value"?

a)

10

b)

-50

c)

50

d)

-25