Open Yale: Financial Markets (ECON 252)

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
    
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
    
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)
    

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