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PPT Behavioral Finance PowerPoint Presentation, free download ID423746 from www.slideserve.com What is Behavioral Finance? Behavioral finance is a relatively new field of study that combines psychology and economics, with the goal of understanding why and how people make financial decisions. This field of study looks at how our emotions, biases, and experiences can affect our decision making. It seeks to explain how emotions and biases can lead to irrational decisions, which may not be in our best financial interests. By understanding how this happens, it can help us make better financial decisions. The Origins of Behavioral Finance Behavioral finance has its roots in the 1970s, when Nobel Prize-winning economists began to question many of the assumptions of traditional economics. They argued that people do not always make rational decisions, as traditional economic models assume. Rather, our decisions are often driven by emotions and biases. This realization led to the development...