The University of Fukui Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Headquarters has developed a game-type financial transaction diagnosis and evaluation system.Created by Takuji Takemoto, an associate professor at the same university with a research grant from the Hayao Nakayama Foundation for Science and Technology and the cooperation of Xcreed (Awara City, Fukui Prefecture), a system for learning financial economics while maintaining the enjoyment of games. It has become.
According to the University of Fukui, the game is a mechanism to increase funds by asset management with a certain amount of funds, and has the element of an online battle game in which multiple players can participate at the same time.Over time, various events similar to those in the real world will occur, such as fluctuations in the policy interest rate, which may lead to a stronger yen or a weaker yen, and accompanying fluctuations in individual stock prices, and interest rates and market prices will fluctuate.
You can introduce real estate transactions by bidding and acquire and manage real estate by bidding.If other players show their willingness to buy, they can sell it, and real estate income will fluctuate due to economic fluctuations.If the investment behavior of the participants heats up risk-oriented, a bubble will occur, and if investment is biased toward non-risk assets, it will enter recession mode.
After the game is over, a diagnosis and evaluation function is implemented so that the player can check not only the operation result but also his / her own behavioral habits.
As the knowledge of behavioral economics in financial education is gaining worldwide attention, the University of Fukui believes that this system may be a pioneering achievement in implementing the knowledge of behavioral economics.The University of Fukui will use it as a teaching material in business administration-related classes from the second half of 2016.
