Are you spending so much time maximising your marks that you end up max-ing your credit card? Does the thought of numbers and money management make your head hurt? Do you need help optimising your dollar to alcohol ratio? Let MDSC help! “Finance for Dummies” is a crash course in money that provides the basics of personal finance. Learn about taxation, banking, and understand how to evaluate salary packages. This is your one-stop shop to learn all about financial security and improve your financial literacy!
Speaker:
Professor Carsten Murawski
Carsten Murawski is a Professor in the Department of Finance and co-director of the Brain, Mind & Markets Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. The lab uses experimental research to address fundamental questions on individual decision-making and markets, with the aim to identify new ways to improve both human and machine decision-making. The current focus of Carsten’s work is on determining in what ways information processing constraints in the brain affect decision-making, how they lead to phenomena such as cognitive biases and in what ways decision-making can be improved. Prior to joining The University of Melbourne, Carsten was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. He has been a visiting researcher at New York University and at Columbia University, New York and has taught at undergraduate and graduate level at The University of Melbourne, the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He has spent several years in the finance industry. Carsten holds a PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and a Master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.