Lecture Notes

Lecture notes (and related spreadsheets) for Finance 4335 are available here:

  1. Introduction to Finance 4335 (August 22)
  2. Mathematics Tutorial (August 24)
  3. Statistics Tutorial, Part 1 (August 294)
  4. Statistics Tutorial, Part 2 (August 31)
  5. Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty (January 31-February 14)
  6. Midterm Exam #1 Review Session (September 21)
  7. Midterm Exam #1 (September 26)
  8. Behavioral Economics and Insurance Economics (September 28 – October 3)
  9. Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection (October 5-10)
  10. Portfolio Theory (October 12-17)
  11. Capital Market Theory (October 17-19)
  12. Midterm Exam #2 Review Session (October 24)
  13. Midterm Exam #2 (October 26)
  14. Derivatives (of the financial kind!) – Part 1 and Part 2 (October 31 – November 9)
  15. Credit Risk Application of option pricing theory (November 14-16)
  16. Why is Risk Costly to Firms? (November 28 – 30)
  17. Final Review and Summary of Finance 4335 (December 5)