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Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society – Yale, ECON 252, 1.2

Posted on | January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

This is synopsis one of two from lecture two of Dr. Shiller’s Yale ECON 252 course: Financial Markets.  Go to the ECON 252 link to access all synopses to this point.

The first synopsis of Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society is available for review by clicking the link.  The second half of the initial lecture was Dr. Shiller going over the course layout in lectures.  The following is taken directly from the syllabus:

1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks
3. Technology and Invention in Finance
4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)
5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen
10. Debt Markets: Term Structure
Midterm Exam 1
11. Stocks
12. Real Estate Finance and Its Vulnerability to Crisis
13. Banking: Successes and Failures
14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Midterm Exam 2
17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
21. Forwards and Futures
22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
23. Options Markets
24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
25. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)
26. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)
Final Exam

Some of the more interesting topics that we will go into great depth include:

  • Debt
  • Stock Market
  • Real Estate
  • Monetary Policy
  • Investment Banking
  • Money Managers
  • Brokerages
  • Futures Contracts
  • Option Exchanges.

Many of these subjects will lead to a discussion here at Subprime Blogger and we hope you all get involved.  We have already seen a great turnout for this adventure and we hope you continue to tell your colleagues, friends and family.

The link to the course is ECON 252

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