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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Stephen A. Ross; Randolph W. Westerfield; Bradford D. Jordan

Chapter 22

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

01:25

Problem 1

In the chapter, we discussed the $3 \mathrm{Com} / \mathrm{Palm}$ and Royal Dutch/Shell mispricings. Which of the limits to arbitrage would least likely be the main reason for these mispricings? Explain.

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Problem 2

How could overconfidence affect the financial manager of the firm and the firm's shareholders?

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02:45

Problem 3

How can frame dependence lead to irrational investment decisions?

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Problem 4

What is noise trader risk? How can noise trader risk lead to market inefficiencies?

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02:02

Problem 5

Suppose you are flipping a fair coin in a Page 762 coin-flipping contest and have flipped eight heads in a row. What is the probability of flipping a head on your next coin flip? Suppose you flipped a head on your ninth toss. What is the probability of flipping a head on your tenth toss?

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00:51

Problem 6

In the mid- to late-1990s, the performance of the pros was unusually poor-on the order of 90 percent of all equity mutual funds underperformed a passively managed index fund. How does this fact bear on the issue of market efficiency?

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00:57

Problem 7

The efficient market hypothesis implies that all mutual funds should obtain the same expected risk-adjusted returns. Therefore, we can simply pick mutual funds at random. Is this statement true or false? Explain.

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06:58

Problem 8

Some people argue that the efficient market hypothesis cannot explain the 1987 market crash or the high price-to-earnings ratio of Internet stocks during the late $1990 \mathrm{~s}$. What alternative hypothesis is currently used for these two phenomena?

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Problem 9

Proponents of behavioral finance use three concepts to argue that markets are not efficient. What are these arguments?

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Problem 10

In the chapter, we presented an example where you had lost $$\$ 78$$ and were given the opportunity to make a wager in which your loss would increase to $$\$ 10080$$ percent of the time and decrease to $$\$ 020$$ percent of the time. Using the stand-alone principle from capital budgeting, explain how your decision to accept or reject the proposal could have been affected by frame dependence. In other words, reframe the question in a way in which most people are likely to analyze the proposal correctly.

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