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WorksheetsBehavioral Finance Quiz 1
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 4mins
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?
Overconfidence
Disposition Effect
Loss Aversion
Seasonality
What is true about (Behavioral) Finance?
Less than fully rational behavior.
Limits of arbitrage are possible.
Perfect information processing.
Mispricings are possible.
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)?
Option A
Option B
Recall the mean posterior belief from the Normal-Normal-Model of Bayesian Updating:
s⋅σ21+τ21σ21+μ0⋅σ21+τ21τ21
What is the meaning of the term
σ21+τ21σ21 ?
Signal
Weight on the prior belief
Prior belief
Weight on the signal
In class, you learned about mispricings resulting from spin-offs. What possible reasons can explain this phenomenon?
Currency Risk
Taxation
Noise Trader Risk
Liquidity
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"?
10
-50
50
-25
