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Financial Markets

This course provides an overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries. (from oyc.yale.edu )

Instructor

Professor Robert J. Shiller,

Economics

2012

Lecture 01 - Introduction and What this Course Will Do for You and Your Purposes

Lecture 02 - Risk and Financial Crises

Lecture 03 - Technology and Invention in Finance

Lecture 04 - Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions

Lecture 05 - Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution, its Opportunities and Vulnerabilities

Lecture 06 - Guest Speaker David Swensen

Lecture 07 - Efficient Markets

Lecture 08 - Theory of Debt, Its Proper Role, Leverage Cycles

Lecture 09 - Corporate Stocks

Lecture 10 - Real Estate

Lecture 11 - Behavioral Finance and the Role of Psychology

Lecture 12 - Misbehavior, Crises, Regulation and Self Regulation

Lecture 13 - Banks

Lecture 14 - Guest Speaker Maurice "Hank" Greenberg

Lecture 15 - Forward and Futures Markets

Lecture 16 - Guest Speaker Laura Cha

Lecture 17 - Options Markets

Lecture 18 - Monetary Policy

Lecture 19 - Investment Banks

Lecture 20 - Professional Money Managers and their Influence

Lecture 21 - Exchanges, Brokers, Dealers, Clearinghouses

Lecture 22 - Public and Non-Profit Finance

Lecture 23 - Finding your Purpose in a World of Financial Capitalism