R87 练习: 个人行为偏差

考纲范围

  • Compare and contrast cognitive errors and emotional biases. 比较/对比:认知错误和情绪偏见
  • Discuss commonly recognized behavioral biases and their implications for financial decision making. 讨论:行为偏见对财务决策的影响
  • Describe how behavioral biases of investors can lead to market characteristics that may not be explained by traditional finance. 描述:投资者的行为偏见如何导致传统金融无法解释的市场特征

Q1.

Which of the following is NOT an explanation of cognitive error?

A. Due primarily to faulty reasoning.

B. Often be corrected through better information or education.

C. Stem from feeling or impulses.


Q2.

Which of the following biases does not belong to emotional biases?

A. Self-control bias

B. Illusion of control bias

C. Endowment bias


Q3.

Which of the following would least likely be classified as an emotional bias?

A. Lucy selects securities based on what she could call on in her memory.

B. Cathy values more of the securities in her portfolio than the securities she has not invested.

C. Jerry is too conservative in his investment choices as a result of poor outcomes in the past.


Q4.

Peter Lu, a junior senior financial advisor for an investment group, helps high-net-worth clients to manage their portfolios. Lu is meeting with a new client, Helen Song, a 45-year-old lawyer with $5 million in various accounts. Song told Lu that she has three different bank accounts, each with different sources and uses of funds, as shown below:

Bank accountsSource of depositsUse of funds
ASalaryLiving expenses
BAnnual bonus and other incentive plansSavings for retirement
CInvestment incomesExtravagant expenditure

Based on the information above, Song most likely exhibits the behavioral bias of:

A. mental accounting

B. representative

C. framing


Q5.

Mandy and Jerry White both 50-year-old, are meeting with their financial advisor Peter Lu. The couple own shares of Global Media Co., a social media company. Global Media has experienced higher than industry average earning growth since IPO for more than twenty years. However, in the most recent quarter, Global Media’s earnings have been below analysts’ expectation. Mandy believed that the short-term earning decline reflects the real trends of the company and suggested to sell the shares of Global Media. On the other hand, Jerry wanted to hold the shares of Global Media, because Global Media had performed very well during last more than twenty years.

Mandy’s investment decision regarding Global Media reflect which behavioral bias?

A. Confirmation

B. Representativeness.

C. Conservatism.


Q6.

Which of following behavioral biases most likely have a consequence of excessive trading?

A. Illusion of control bias

B. Anchoring and adjustment bias

C. Conservatism


Q7.

Lucy’s investment portfolio has stayed the same for several years because her lazy character makes her unwilling to do any analysis and changes. Which bias best describes Lucy’s behavior:

A. Endowment bias

B. Self-control bias

C. Status quo bias


Q8.

Momentum effect is not directly related to which of the following behavioral bias?

A. Regret aversion

B. Availability bias

C. Status quo


Q9.

Behavioral finance has the potential to explain some apparent deviations from market efficiency (market anomalies). Which of the following is least likely a typical market anomaly?

A. Bubbles and Crashes

B. Calendar Effect

C. Stock prize converges quickly to the intrinsic value


Q10.

Which of the following describes a strong tendency in favor of domestic securities in the context of global portfolios?

A. Home bias

B. Halo effect

C. Momentum