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