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Psychology and Neurophysiology of Financial Decisionmaking
Dmitry Repin
Wed Jan 12, 10am-12:00pm, E52-010

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event

What are the mechanisms behind the economic behavior of individual market participants? How risk-taking behavior depends on the emotional state and how well are behavioral mechanisms adapted to succeed in the modern financial marketplace? How do emotions affect trading profit and loss and is there a difference in physiological patterns for good and bad trading performance? This seminar will discuss the above questions in the context of recent research findings at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
Web: http://lfe.mit.edu/risk_psychology/index.htm
Contact: Svetlana Sussman, (617) 253-8318, ssussman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
Latest update: 12-Nov-2004


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