Syllabus (pdf)

Class journal

Lecture 1 & 2: Risk and Return (pdf) [optional reading: chapter 5 in Bodie, Kane, Marcus, Investments]
Lecture 3: The behavior of interest rates (pdf)
Lecture 4: The term structure of interest rates (pdf)
Lecture 5: Efficient markets (pdf)
Lecture 6: New Facts in Finance (pdf)
Lecture 7: New Facts in Finance
Lecture 8: Central banking (pdf reading1 reading2 reading3)

Readings

Interview to Fama (pdf)
Number-crunchers crunched (pdf)
What led to the financial meltdown (pdf)
How risky is the global economy? (link)
Occupy the mortgage lenders (link)
Last chance to save the Euro (pdf)
In defense of hedgehogs (pdf)
Bank Capital (pdf)
Contagion and the other Euro myths (pdf)

Files excel:

Lecture 2 (xls1,xls2)

File for discussion on TIPS (xls)

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