Do public and private education make a difference in the students? financial decisions? An analysis in Argentine Universities under a Behavioral Finance approach

LADRON DE GUEVARA ROGELIO; TOLOSA, LETICIA EVA; ROJO, MARÍA PAULA

BOGOTA -VIRTUAL

Congreso; IV Congreso Internacional de Economía y Finanzas Conductuales; 2021

Universidad Católica de Colombia

The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence of the use of the Prospect Theory basic assumptions in the Argentine context. Particularly, we analyze the financial decision-making process in students of the economic-administrative academic area of two Universities, one public the National University of Cordoba (UNC), and one private, the Catholic University of Cordoba (UCC), both in the city of Cordoba, Argentina.In that context, this study represents an extension of a research project conducted by our research group where we have carried out similar experiments in different Universities from Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. The nature of this extension responds to our interest of analyze if the financial decisions taken by the participants are different responding to geographic, cultural, social and economic particularities in each University and country.