Starting from a (sensational?) article in Scientific Reports that discovered a relationship between “gut feeling” and professional trading success, Prof Bossaerts will delve into the neurobiological foundations of financial decision-making.
Taking place in Melbourne, this presentation will highlight how biology not only can clarify otherwise puzzling behavioural findings, but also uncover behavioural traits that behaviour-centred research has overlooked. It will shed light on what robot traders can and cannot do better than humans.
About the speaker
Peter Bossaerts is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Professor of Experimental Finance and Decision Neuroscience at The University of Melbourne, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.
He pioneered the use of controlled experimentation (with human participants) in the study of financial markets, and helped bring decision theory and game theory to cognitive neuroscience, which led to the emerging fields of neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience and computational neuropsychiatry.
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