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Financial Theory - Audio

Financial Theory - Audio

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01 - Why Finance?

01 - Why Finance?

This lecture gives a brief history of the young field of financial theory, which began in business schools quite separat... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 14mins

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19 - History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative

19 - History of the Mortgage Market: A Personal Narrative

I explain how, as a mathematical economist, I became interested in the practical world of mortgage securities, and how I... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 19mins

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18 - Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages

18 - Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages

A mortgage involves making a promise, backing it with collateral, and defining a way to dissolve the promise at prearran... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 12mins

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11 - Social Security

11 - Social Security

This lecture continues the analysis of Social Security started at the end of the last class. We describe the creation of... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 12mins

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02 - Utilities, Endowments, and Equilibrium

02 - Utilities, Endowments, and Equilibrium

This lecture explains what an economic model is, and why it allows for counterfactual reasoning and often yields paradox... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 12mins

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08 - How a Long-Lived Institution Figures an Annual Budget. Yield

08 - How a Long-Lived Institution Figures an Annual Budget. Yield

In the 1990s, Yale discovered that it was faced with a deferred maintenance problem: the university hadn't properly plan... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 16mins

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07 - Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Collateral. Present Value and the Vocabulary of Finance

07 - Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Collateral. Present Value and the Vocabulary of Finance

While economists didn't have a good theory of interest until Irving Fisher came along, and didn't understand the role of... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 18mins

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05 - Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest

05 - Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest

Philosophers and theologians have railed against interest for thousands of years. But that is because they didn't unders... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 14mins

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04 - Efficiency, Assets, and Time

04 - Efficiency, Assets, and Time

Over time, economists' justifications for why free markets are a good thing have changed. In the first few classes, we s... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 11mins

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06 - Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest

06 - Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest

Building on the general equilibrium setup solved in the last week, this lecture looks in depth at the relationships betw... Read more

25 Mar 2011

1hr 10mins

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