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

1. Introduction to Finance 4335 (August 22)
2. Mathematics Tutorial (August 24)
   • Rule of 72 spreadsheet
   • Taylor Series spreadsheet
3. Statistics Tutorial, Part 1 (August 294)
   
4. Statistics Tutorial, Part 2 (August 31)
   • Coin Toss Sequences and Probabilities
5. Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty (January 31-February 14)
   • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 1 (September 5-7)
     • Risky Investment spreadsheet
   • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 2 (September 12)
     • Arrow-Pratt spreadsheet
   • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 3 (September 14)
   • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 4 (September 19)
6. Midterm Exam #1 Review Session (September 21)
7. Midterm Exam #1 (September 26)
8. Behavioral Economics and Insurance Economics (September 28 – October 3)
   • Bernoulli and Mossin spreadsheet
   • Coinsurance, Deductibles, and Upper Limits spreadsheet
9. Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection (October 5-10)
   • Moral hazard – compensation contract design spreadsheet
   • Dynamic Adverse Selection spreadsheet
   • Rothschild-Stiglitz Model spreadsheet
10. Portfolio Theory (October 12-17)
    • Two-Asset Portfolio spreadsheet
    • Two-Asset Feasible Set (CDF format; requires Wolfram Player)
11. Capital Market Theory (October 17-19)
    • Optimal Portfolio Allocation spreadsheet
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)
    • Black-Scholes Calculator
15. Credit Risk Application of option pricing theory (November 14-16)
    • Pricing Credit Risk Solution Procedure
16. Why is Risk Costly to Firms? (November 28 – 30)
    • The Underinvestment Problem (Spreadsheet)
17. Final Review and Summary of Finance 4335 (December 5)