Financial Theory (ECON 251) Yale
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Description: This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. 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.
Resources: OpenCourseware from Yale, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Husson along with many of the World's finest University's.
Language: English
Professors: Michael Williams
Units: 26
Lesson content
- Lec 1. Why Finance?
- Lec 2. Utilities, Endowments, and Equilibrium
- Lec 3. Computing Equilibrium
- Lec 4. Efficiency, Assets, and Time
- Lec 5. Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest
- Lec 6. Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest
- Lec 7. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Collateral, Present Value and the Vocabulary of Finance
- Lec 8. How a Long-Lived Institution Figures an Annual Budget. Yield
- Lec 9. Yield Curve Arbitrage
- Lec 10. Dynamic Present Value
- Lec 11. Social Security
- Lec 12. Overlapping Generations Models of the Economy
- Lec 13. Demography and Asset Pricing: Will the Stock Market Decline when the Baby Boomers Retire?
- Lec 14. Quantifying Uncertainty and Risk
- Lec 15. Uncertainty and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis
- Lec 16. Backward Induction and Optimal Stopping Times
- Lec 17. Callable Bonds and the Mortgage Prepayment Option
- Lec 18. Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages
- Lec 19. History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative
- Lec 20. Dynamic Hedging
- Lec 21. Dynamic Hedging and Average Life
- Lec 22. Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Theorem
- Lec 23. The Mutual Fund Theorem and Covariance Pricing Theorems
- Lec 24. Risk, Return, and Social Security
- Lec 25. The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Lec 26. The Leverage Cycle and Crashes
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