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

1. 1. Introduction to Finance 4335: Course Syllabus and Lecture 1 (August 27)
   2. Mathematics Tutorial (August 29)
      
   3. Statistics Tutorial, Part 1 (September 3)
   4. Statistics Tutorial, Part 2 (September 5)
      • Coin Toss Sequences and Probabilities
   5. Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty (September 10 – 24)
      • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 1 (September 10 – 12)
        
      • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 2 (September 17
        
      • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 3 (September 19)
      • Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, part 4 (September 24
   6. Midterm Exam #1 Review Session (September 26)
   7. Midterm Exam #1 (February 20)
   8. Behavioral Economics and Insurance Economics (October 3 – 8)
      • Bernoulli and Mossin spreadsheet
      • Coinsurance, Deductibles, and Upper Limits spreadsheet
   9. Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection (October 10 – 15)
      • Moral hazard – compensation contract design spreadsheet
      • Dynamic Adverse Selection spreadsheet
      • Rothschild-Stiglitz Model spreadsheet
   10. Portfolio and Capital Market Theory (October 17-24)
       • Two-Asset Portfolio spreadsheet
       • Two-Asset Feasible Set (CDF format; requires Wolfram Player)
       • Optimal Portfolio Allocation spreadsheet
       • Portfolio Theory Class Problem
       • Capital Market Theory Class Problem
   11. Midterm Exam #2 Review Session (October 29)
   12. Midterm Exam #2 (October 31)
   13. Derivatives (of the financial kind!) – Part 1 and Part 2 (November 5 – 21)
   14. Credit Risk Application of option pricing theory (November 21)
       • Pricing Credit Risk Solution Procedure
   15. Why is Risk Costly to Firms? (December 3-5)
       • The Underinvestment Problem (Spreadsheet)
   16. Final Review and Summary of Finance 4335 (December 10)