Asset Pricing WS 2011

Course Outline

  1. Introduction: finance basics
    Time value of money, compounding, measuring return, discount rates, dividend discount model, expected utility
  2. The stochastic discount factor
    Using the stochastic discount factor approach to understand returns on risky and risk-free assets
  3. Factor pricing models
    The CAPM and the empirical evidence, Fama-French-3-factors
  4. Aggregate stock price behavior
    Equity premium puzzle, time series predictability
  5. Rationality and Behavioral Finance
    Bubbles, Prospect Theory

Time Table

DateKindRemark
24.10.2011Lecture
31.10.2011Lecture
07.11.2011Lecture, Exercise 1
14.11.2011Lecture
21.11.2011Exercise 2, Tutorium
28.11.2011Lecture
05.12.2011Lecture
12.12.2011Case Study 
19.12.2011Lecture, 
Talk B. Kalteier, Montagu PE
X-Mas
9.01.2012Exercise 3 & 4
16.01.2012Lecture
23.01.2012Lecture
30.01.2012Lecture, Exercise 5
06.02.2012Exam Preparation, Exercise 6
13.02.2012Q&A Session starts 9:30
14.02.2012Exam

Literature

  • Cochrane: Asset Pricing, 2005, in particular: chapters 1 (not 1.5), 9 (only 9.1), 12 (only 12.3), 20, 21 (21.1), Revised Edition. (1st edition will do but check out the typo list on Cochranes homepage.)
  • The 1st chapter of Cochrane is freely available over the website of the Princeton University Press.
  • You find a list of papers in the slides.

News

The retake of the exam will be on Apr. 13th 2012.

Time: 10.00 to 12.00
Room: 226 (N24)

Instructors

Peter N. Posch

Samuel Pollege

Eva-Maria Eisele

Dates and Room

Monday: 8:30-12:00h (H12)

Exam

First exam: 14.02.2012; 10-12h; H 4/5

Retake: 13.04.2012; 10-12h; N24-226

Module description

This lecture is open for

  • Wiwi (MSc, Dipl)
  • WiMa (MSc, Dipl)
  • Finance (MSc)

and others according to study plan.

Module description