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19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
The exchanges in which stocks and other securities are traded serve an important function in finance. They bring toge...
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24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Professor Shiller, in his final lecture, reviews some of the most important tools for individual risk management. Sig...
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21. Forwards and Futures
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Futures markets were started in Osaka, Japan in the 1600s to create an authoritative and meaningful market price for ...
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1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the t...
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9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
David Swensen, Yale's Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University's endowment, discusses the tactics and t...
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3. Technology and Invention in Finance
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Technology and innovation underlie finance. In order to manage risks successfully, particularly long-term, we must po...
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8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make per...
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7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Behavioral Finance is a relatively recent revolution in finance that applies insights from all of the social sciences...
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10. Debt Markets: Term Structure
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
The markets for debt, both public and private far exceed the entire stock market in value and importance. The U.S. Tr...
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2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Statistics and mathematics underlie the theories of finance. Probability Theory and various distribution types are im...
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4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Portfolio diversification is the most fundamental concept of risk management. The allocation of financial resources i...
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11. Stocks
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
The stock market is the information center for the corporate sector. It represents individuals' ownership in publicly...
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20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Stephen Schwarzman, Co-Founder of Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, speaks about his experience in the industr...
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17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
First, Professor Shiller discusses today's changing financial system and recent market stabilization reform introduce...
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23. Options Markets
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Options introduce an essential nonlineary into portfolio management. They are contracts between buyers and writers, w...
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16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Central Banks, originally created as bankers' banks, implement monetary policy using their leverage over the supply o...
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26. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis II (Lawrence Summers)
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
In the second of his two lectures in honor of Arthur Okun, Professor Summers points out that real interest rates have...
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12. Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Real Estate is the biggest asset class and of great importance for both individuals and institutional investors. An a...
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22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Futures markets have expanded far beyond their initial application to farmer's planting and harvest cycles. These mar...
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14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Andrew Redleaf, a Yale graduate and manager of Whitebox Advisors, a hedge fund, discusses his experience with financi...
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25. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis I (Lawrence Summers)
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Professor Summers, former U. S. Treasury Secretary and former President of Harvard University, in this the first of t...
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15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Mr. Carl Icahn, a prominent activist investor in corporate America, talks about his career and how he became interest...
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5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Insurance provides significant risk management to a broad public, and is an essential tool for promoting human welfar...
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13. Banking: Successes and Failures
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Banks, which were first created in primitive form by goldsmiths hundreds of years ago, have evolved into central econ...
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18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Most people are not very good at dealing in financial markets. Professional money managers, such as financial advisor...
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6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
Financial Markets (ECON 252)
Several theories in finance relate to stock price analysis and prediction. The efficient markets hypothesis states th...
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2. Planetary Orbits
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Exoplanets are introduced and students learn how astronomers detect their presence as well as t...
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12. Stellar Mass Black Holes
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
One last key concept in Special Relativity is introduced before discussion turns again to black...
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18. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Professor Bailyn returns to the subject of the expansion of the universe to offer explanations ...
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13. Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.)
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with clarification of equations from the previous lecture. Four post-Newtonian gra...
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3. Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with a review of the first problem set. Newton's Third Law is applied in explainin...
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22. Supernovae
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Professor Bailyn offers a review of what is known so far about the expansion of the universe fr...
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11. Special and General Relativity (cont.)
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The lecture begins with a comprehensive overview of the historical conditions under which Einst...
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5. Planetary Transits
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Professor Bailyn talks about student responses for a paper assignment on the controversy over P...
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9. Special and General Relativity
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The discussion of black holes continues with an introduction of the concept of event horizon. A...
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10. Tests of Relativity
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The lecture begins with the development of post-Newtonian approximations from Newtonian terms. ...
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14. Pulsars
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Professor Bailyn begins with a summary of the four post-Newtonian effects of general relativity...
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20. Dark Matter
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
This lecture introduces an important concept related to the past and future of the universe: th...
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6. Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The class begins with a discussion on transits important astronomical events that help astrono...
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21. Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with a review of the mysterious nature of dark matter, which accounts for three qu...
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1. Introduction
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Professor Bailyn introduces the course and discusses the course material and requirements. The ...
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17. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.)
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with a review of magnitudes and the problem set involving magnitude equations. Imp...
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15. Supermassive Black Holes
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The lecture begins with a question-and-answer session about black holes. Topics include the ext...
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4. Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The formation of planets is discussed with a special emphasis on the bodies in the Solar System...
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19. Omega and the End of the Universe
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with a review of the issues previously addressed about the origin and fate of the ...
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16. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The third and final part of the course begins, consisting of a series of lectures on cosmology....
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8. Introduction to Black Holes
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
The second half of the course begins, focusing on black holes and relativity. In introducing bl...
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7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)
Class begins with a problem on transits and learning what information astronomers obtain throug...
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