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Microfoundations of Financial EconomicsAn Introduction to General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Name of Instructor College Semester
Contact • Class schedule (time & location): … • Instructor … • email … • office hours … • Tutorial schedule: … • TA … • email … • office hours … • Course homepage: …
Grading • … % of grade will be based on assignments. • There will be a midterm exam, worth …% of the final grade. • The final exam at the end of the semester is worth …%. • It is also possible to earn additional credits by writing a term paper.
Textbook • The course is mainly based on Lengwiler, Microfoundations of Financial Economics(Princeton University Press, 2004). • The book can be downloaded free of charge from www.microfoundations.org
Other reading • Supplementary texts to which we will occasionally refer include • Gollier, The Economics of Risk and Time (MIT Press) • Cochrane, Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press) • LeRoy and Werner, Principles of Financial Economics (Cambridge University Press) • Danthine and Donaldson, Intermediate Financial Theory (Prentice Hall) • Campbell, Lo, and MacKinlay, The Econometrics of Financial Markets, (Princeton University Press) • Campbell and Viceira, Strategic Asset Allocation (Oxford University Press) • Ljungqvist and Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory (MIT Press) Please amend according to your needs.
Other reading • It is important that you also read original literature. For your convenience, a reader with a collection of articles for parallel study has been placed in the library. • Also, a list of references with many links to online versions of the various papers is available from www.microfoundations.org/lit.html