Financial Markets courses
This Yale university training course, taught on university two times each week for 75 mins, ended up being taped for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2011.
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About Professor Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Fellow within International Center for Finance at the Yale class of control. Devoted to behavioral finance and real estate, Professor Shiller features posted in Journal of Financial Economics, United states financial Evaluation, Journal of Finance, Wall Street Journal, and Financial occasions. His publications feature Market Volatility, Macro areas (that he won TIAA-CREF's Paul A. Samuelson Award), Irrational Exuberance, the brand new Financial Order: danger when you look at the Twenty-First Century, and Finance while the great community.
Teacher
Robert J. Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics
Information
A synopsis associated with the ideas, techniques, and institutions that permit personal community to handle dangers and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to exposure administration and behavioral finance concepts to comprehend the functioning of securities, insurance coverage, and financial industries.
Texts
Main texts
Fabozzi, Frank J., Franco Modigliani, Frank J. Jones, and Michael G. Ferri. Fundamentals of Financial Markets and Institutions, 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2010.
Shiller, Robert J. Finance and the Great Community. Princeton University Press, 2012.
Program Packet
Brandeis, Louis D. Other's Cash and just how the Bankers Use It. Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, Reprints of Economic Classics, 1971.
Brealey, Richard. Stuart C. Myers, and Franklin Allen. Axioms of Corporate Finance, 8th edition. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005.
Bagehot, Walter. Lombard-street: An Information for the Money Market. Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1873. (freely readily available as a Google eBook)
Carnegie, Andrew. The Gospel of Riches and Other Timely Essays. The Century Company, 1901. (freely offered as a Google e-book)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities Exchange Commission. Results Regarding the marketplace occasions of might 6, 2010. Report to the Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues, Washington DC: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, September 30, 2010
Conant, Charles A. Wall Street in addition to nation: A Study of latest Financial Tendencies. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904. (freely readily available as a Google e-book)
Douglas, William O. Democracy and Finance. Yale University Press, 1940.
Ellis, Charles. The Partnership: The Creating of Goldman Sachs. Penguin, 2008.
Fraser, Steve. Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace. Yale University Press, 2009.
Gorton, Gary. “Slapped within the Face because of the Invisible give: Banking together with Panic of 2007.” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference, 2009.
Hawtrey, R. G. The skill of Central Banking. Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.
Johnson, Simon, Rafael Los Angeles Porta, Florencio Lopez-di-Silanos, and Andrei Shleifer. "Tunneling." United States Financial Evaluation, 2000, 90(2).
Lehrer, Jonah. “The Truth Wears Off: can there be something very wrong using Scientific Process?” The New Yorker, December 13, 2010.
O'Barr, William M. and John M. Conley. Fortune & Folly: The Wealth & Power of Institutional Investing. Business-One Irwin, 1992.
Seligman, Edwin R. A. The Income Tax: A research for the record, concept, and Practice of money Taxation home and Abroad. 2nd version, MacMillan, 1914. (freely readily available as a Google e-book)
Shiller, Robert J. Irrational Exuberance, second edition. Doubleday, 2006.
Shiller, Robert J. the brand new Financial purchase: threat in 21st Century. Princeton University Press, 2003.
Siegel, Jeremy J. Stocks when it comes to long term: the definitive help guide to monetary market comes back and long-term investment methods, 4th edition. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Sullivan, Teresa, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook. The Fragile Middle-class: Americans indebted. Yale University Press, 2000.
Sumner, William Graham. Exactly what the Social Classes Owe Both. Harper Brothers, 1883. (easily readily available as a Google eBook)
Swensen, David. Pioneering Portfolio Management. Complimentary Press, 2000.
Thaler, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge: Improving Choices about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Yale University Press, 2008.
“The Gospel of riches” (Assessment) bay area Chronicle, February 9, 1890.
Unger, Peter. Residing High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Working, Holbrook, "Futures Trading and Hedging, " United states financial Assessment, Summer 1953.
World Economic Forum. Partnering to Strengthen Public Governance. Geneva, 2008.
Requirements
Some center with primary algebra and calculus needed. Course exams include approximately 50percent mathematics and theory issues and 50per cent facts and general understanding questions about financial areas.
Grading
Midterm exam 1: 20percent
Midterm exam 2: 30percent
Problem sets: 10per cent
Last exam: 40per cent
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