An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Emphasis on financially-savvy leadership skills. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the real-world functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries. The ultimate goal of this course is using such industries effectively and towards a better society.
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Skills you will gain
Behavioral FinanceFinancial MarketsFinanceBehavioral Economics
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
1Module 1
Welcome to the course! In this opening module, you will learn the basics of financial markets, insurance, and CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model). This module serves as the foundation of this course.
23 videos (Total 184 min), 1 reading, 5 quizzes
23 videos
Financial Markets Introduction8m
Your Teaching Assistant, Arun!1m
Good and Evil3m
VaR and Stress Tests8m
S&P 50013m
Joe McNay Story1m
Distribution and Outliers9m
Chalk Talk - Covariance11m
Insurance Fundamentals10m
Insurance Milestones6m
Insurance is a Local Phenomenon6m
Health Insurance6m
Disasters8m
Eggs in One Basket7m
Salon - Risk13m
CAPM10m
Chalk Talk: Beta7m
Chalk Talk: CAPM and Diversification8m
Short Sales7m
Calculating the Optimal Portfolio9m
Efficient Portfolio Frontier10m
Chalk Talk - Gordon Growth Model9m
1 reading
Pre-Course Survey10m
5 practice exercises
Lesson #1 Quiz8m
Lesson #2 Quiz12m
Lession #3 Quiz10m
Lesson #4 Quiz10m
Module 1 Honors Quiz28m
Week
2Module 2
In this next module, dive into some details of behavioral finance, forecasting, pricing, debt, and inflation.
17 videos (Total 139 min), 4 quizzes
17 videos
Salon - Innovation4m
Limited Liability7m
Inflation Indexed Debt5m
Unidad de Fomento4m
Real Estate: Risk Management Devices5m
Forecasting15m
Intuition of Efficiency12m
Price as PDV5m
Doubting Efficiency6m
Introduction to Behavioral Finance6m
Prospect Theory18m
Chalk Talk - More on Prospect Theory5m
Logical Fallacies9m
The Brain11m
Magical Thinking8m
Personality Disorders5m
4 practice exercises
Lesson #5 Quiz10m
Lesson #6 Quiz8m
Lesson #7 Quiz12m
Module 2 Honors Quiz22m
Week
3Module 3
Stocks, bonds, dividends, shares, market caps; what are these? Who needs them? Why? Module 3 explores these concepts, along with corporation basics and some basic financial markets history.
18 videos (Total 137 min), 3 quizzes
18 videos
Federal Funds and Interest Rates10m
Compound Interest3m
Discount Bonds11m
Consol and Annuity8m
Forward Rates and Expectation Theory4m
Inflation4m
Leverage11m
Market Capitalization by Country6m
The Corporation8m
Shares and Dividends11m
Common vs. Preferred2m
Corporate Charter8m
Corporations Raise Money8m
Dilution6m
Share Repurchase6m
PDV of Expected Dividends11m
Why do firms pay dividends?8m
3 practice exercises
Lesson #8 Quiz16m
Lesson #9 Quiz18m
Module 3 Honors Quiz28m
Week
4Module 4
Take a look into the recent past, exploring recessions, bubbles, the mortgage crisis, and regulation.
22 videos (Total 189 min), 4 quizzes
22 videos
History of Mortgage Lending3m
Commercial Real Estate Vehicles11m
Mortgages, part 19m
Mortgages, part 29m
PMI, CMOs, CDOs5m
Post Crisis Regulation8m
Chalk Talks - Excess Reserves9m
The Bubble, part 17m
The Bubble, part 25m
The Bubble, part 311m
Salon - Bubbles13m
Regulation Overview7m
Salon - Regulation and housing10m
Within Firm Regulation, part 15m
Within Firm Regulation, part 27m
Trade Groups4m
Local Regulation3m
National Regulation, part 113m
National Regulation, part 215m
National Regulation, part 311m
International Regulation6m
3 practice exercises
Lesson #10 Quiz16m
Lesson #11 Quiz18m
Module 4 Honors Quiz18m
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By EM•Nov 4th 2018
This was really a great experience. A course taught by a valued teach. Enjoyed it all the way though I would have liked more mathematical and theoretical models. But then where do you end in a MOOC ?
By MK•Jun 8th 2018
Through this course, I have learned not only technical financial terms but much deeper meaning of the financial markets which I always wanted to understand. I feel very lucky that I took this course.
Instructor
Robert Shiller
Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale UniversityEconomics
About Yale University
For more than 300 years, Yale University has inspired the minds that inspire the world. Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale brings people and ideas together for positive impact around the globe. A research university that focuses on students and encourages learning as an essential way of life, Yale is a place for connection, creativity, and innovation among cultures and across disciplines.
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