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ECON 252: Financial Markets

Lecture 08 - Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation. Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which were created just after the Great Depression, are intended to help prevent the manipulation of investors' psychological foibles and maintain trust in the markets so that a broad spectrum of investors will continue to participate. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 08 - Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Introduction
[00:03:24] 2. Human Errors in Financial Decision-Making
[00:22:34] 3. Why Regulation of Finance Is Necessary
[00:27:51] 4. The Rise of the Securities and Exchange Commission
[00:39:18] 5. Regulation of Private Investments and Hedge Funds
[00:49:14] 6. Nongovernmental Surveillance of Insider Trading and Accounting Regulation
[00:59:45] 7. Protections for the Individual Investor: the SIPC and the FDIC
[01:10:38] 8. Conclusion

References
Lecture 8 - Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
Instructor: Professor Robert J. Shiller. Resources: Lecture 8 [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
Lecture 02 - The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks
Lecture 03 - Technology and Invention in Finance
Lecture 04 - Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)
Lecture 05 - Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
Lecture 06 - Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
Lecture 07 - Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
Lecture 08 - Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
Lecture 09 - Guest Lecture by David Swensen
Lecture 10 - Debt Markets: Term Structure
Lecture 11 - Stocks
Lecture 12 - Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis
Lecture 13 - Banking: Successes and Failures
Lecture 14 - Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
Lecture 15 - Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
Lecture 16 - The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Lecture 17 - Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
Lecture 18 - Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
Lecture 19 - Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
Lecture 20 - Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
Lecture 21 - Forwards and Futures
Lecture 22 - Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
Lecture 23 - Options Markets
Lecture 24 - Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
Lecture 25 - Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis I (Lawrence Summers)
Lecture 26 - Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis II (Lawrence Summers)