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Financial Theory - Audio

Financial Theory - Audio

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25 - The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

25 - The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Standard financial theory left us woefully unprepared for the financial crisis of 2007-09. Something is missing in the t... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 16mins

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26 - The Leverage Cycle and Crashes

26 - The Leverage Cycle and Crashes

In order to understand the precise predictions of the Leverage Cycle theory, in this last class we explicitly solve two ... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 10mins

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24 - Risk, Return, and Social Security

24 - Risk, Return, and Social Security

This lecture addresses some final points about the CAPM. How would one test the theory? Given the theory, what's the rig... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 14mins

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23 - The Mutual Fund Theorem and Covariance Pricing Theorems

23 - The Mutual Fund Theorem and Covariance Pricing Theorems

This lecture continues the analysis of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, building up to two key results. One, the Mutual ... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 16mins

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22 - Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Theorem

22 - Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Theorem

Until now we have ignored risk aversion. The Bernoulli brothers were the first to suggest a tractable way of representin... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 16mins

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21 - Dynamic Hedging and Average Life

21 - Dynamic Hedging and Average Life

This lecture reviews the intuition from the previous class, where the idea of dynamic hedging was introduced. We learn w... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 13mins

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20 - Dynamic Hedging

20 - Dynamic Hedging

Suppose you have a perfect model of contingent mortgage prepayments, like the one built in the previous lecture. You are... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 12mins

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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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17 - Callable Bonds and the Mortgage Prepayment Option

17 - Callable Bonds and the Mortgage Prepayment Option

This lecture is about optimal exercise strategies for callable bonds, which are bonds bundled with an option that allows... Read more

28 Mar 2011

1hr 12mins

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