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ECON 251: Financial Theory (Fall 2009, Open Yale Courses). Instructor: Professor John Geanakoplos. This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
722 years, 1 month
Units & Quizzes
26
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of the economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium. The course also gives a picture of the kind of thinking and analysis done by hedge funds. (from oyc.yale.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Why Finance? Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Utilities, Endowments, and Equilibrium Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Computing Equilibrium Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Efficiency, Assets, and Time Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Irving Fisher’s Impatience Theory of Interest Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Collateral Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – How a Long-Lived Institution Figures an Annual Budget; Yield Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Yield Curve Arbitrage Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Dynamic Present Value Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Social Security Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Overlapping Generations Models of the Economy Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Demography and Asset Pricing Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – Quantifying Uncertainty and Risk Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Uncertainty and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Backward Induction and Optimal Stopping Times Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Callable Bonds and the Mortgage Prepayment Option Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Dynamic Hedging Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Dynamic Hedging and Average Life Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Theorem Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – The Mutual Fund Theorem and Covariance Pricing Theorems Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – Risk, Return, and Social Security Unlimited
- Lecture 25 – The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Unlimited
- Lecture 26 – The Leverage Cycle and Crashes Unlimited
