Financial Markets
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Skills you'll gain
- Financial Services
- Financial Management
- Finance
- Financial Market
- Capital Markets
- Equities
- Investments
- Risk Management
- Financial Regulation
- Investment Banking
- Behavioral Economics
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authorities
- Bank Regulations
- Financial Regulations
- Financial Systems
- Portfolio Risk
- Securities (Finance)
- Banking
- Portfolio Management
- Governance
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There are 7 modules in this course
An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Emphasis on financially-savvy leadership skills. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the real-world functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries. The ultimate goal of this course is using such industries effectively and towards a better society.
Welcome to the course! In this opening module, you will learn the basics of financial markets, insurance, and CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model). This module serves as the foundation of this course.
What's included
23 videos1 reading5 assignments
23 videos•Total 184 minutes
- Welcome video•2 minutes
- Financial Markets Introduction•9 minutes
- Your Teaching Assistant, Arun!•1 minute
- Good and Evil•4 minutes
- VaR and Stress Tests•9 minutes
- S&P 500•13 minutes
- Joe McNay Story•2 minutes
- Distribution and Outliers•10 minutes
- Chalk Talk - Covariance•11 minutes
- Insurance Fundamentals•11 minutes
- Insurance Milestones•7 minutes
- Insurance is a Local Phenomenon•6 minutes
- Health Insurance•6 minutes
- Disasters•9 minutes
- Eggs in One Basket•7 minutes
- Salon - Risk•13 minutes
- CAPM•11 minutes
- Chalk Talk: Beta•8 minutes
- Chalk Talk: CAPM and Diversification•8 minutes
- Short Sales•7 minutes
- Calculating the Optimal Portfolio•10 minutes
- Efficient Portfolio Frontier•11 minutes
- Chalk Talk - Gordon Growth Model•10 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Disclaimer regarding Discussion Boards•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 150 minutes
- Lesson #1 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #2 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lession #3 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #4 Quiz•30 minutes
- Module 1 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
In this next module, dive into some details of behavioral finance, forecasting, pricing, debt, and inflation.
What's included
17 videos4 assignments
17 videos•Total 139 minutes
- Invention Takes Time•7 minutes
- Salon - Innovation•5 minutes
- Limited Liability•7 minutes
- Inflation Indexed Debt•5 minutes
- Unidad de Fomento•5 minutes
- Real Estate: Risk Management Devices•5 minutes
- Forecasting•15 minutes
- Intuition of Efficiency•13 minutes
- Price as PDV•5 minutes
- Doubting Efficiency•6 minutes
- Introduction to Behavioral Finance•6 minutes
- Prospect Theory•18 minutes
- Chalk Talk - More on Prospect Theory•6 minutes
- Logical Fallacies•9 minutes
- The Brain•12 minutes
- Magical Thinking•9 minutes
- Personality Disorders•5 minutes
4 assignments•Total 120 minutes
- Lesson #5 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #6 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #7 Quiz•30 minutes
- Module 2 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
Stocks, bonds, dividends, shares, market caps; what are these? Who needs them? Why? Module 3 explores these concepts, along with corporation basics and some basic financial markets history.
What's included
18 videos3 assignments
18 videos•Total 137 minutes
- 1982 Savings Account•4 minutes
- Federal Funds and Interest Rates•11 minutes
- Compound Interest•3 minutes
- Discount Bonds•11 minutes
- Consol and Annuity•9 minutes
- Forward Rates and Expectation Theory•5 minutes
- Inflation•4 minutes
- Leverage•11 minutes
- Market Capitalization by Country•7 minutes
- The Corporation•8 minutes
- Shares and Dividends•12 minutes
- Common vs. Preferred•3 minutes
- Corporate Charter•9 minutes
- Corporations Raise Money•9 minutes
- Dilution•6 minutes
- Share Repurchase•7 minutes
- PDV of Expected Dividends•11 minutes
- Why do firms pay dividends?•8 minutes
3 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Lesson #8 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #9 Quiz•30 minutes
- Module 3 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
Take a look into the recent past, exploring recessions, bubbles, the mortgage crisis, and regulation.
What's included
22 videos4 assignments
22 videos•Total 189 minutes
- Salon - Recessions•8 minutes
- History of Mortgage Lending•4 minutes
- Commercial Real Estate Vehicles•12 minutes
- Mortgages, part 1•9 minutes
- Mortgages, part 2•10 minutes
- PMI, CMOs, CDOs•6 minutes
- Post Crisis Regulation•8 minutes
- Chalk Talks - Excess Reserves•10 minutes
- The Bubble, part 1•7 minutes
- The Bubble, part 2•6 minutes
- The Bubble, part 3•11 minutes
- Salon - Bubbles•14 minutes
- Regulation Overview•7 minutes
- Salon - Regulation and housing•11 minutes
- Within Firm Regulation, part 1•5 minutes
- Within Firm Regulation, part 2•8 minutes
- Trade Groups•4 minutes
- Local Regulation•4 minutes
- National Regulation, part 1•13 minutes
- National Regulation, part 2•15 minutes
- National Regulation, part 3•12 minutes
- International Regulation•7 minutes
4 assignments•Total 210 minutes
- Lesson #10 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #11 Quiz•30 minutes
- Financialization of Housing•120 minutes
- Module 4 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
Options and bond markets are explored in module 5, important components of financial markets.
What's included
16 videos3 assignments
16 videos•Total 125 minutes
- Salon - Student Loans•4 minutes
- Forwards and Futures Introduction•8 minutes
- Forward Contracts•8 minutes
- Futures Contracts•4 minutes
- Rice Futures•14 minutes
- Wheat Futures•8 minutes
- Buying, Selling, and Settlement•10 minutes
- Fair Value in Futures Contracts•4 minutes
- Oil Futures•15 minutes
- SPI & FFR Futures•5 minutes
- Options Overview•5 minutes
- Reading Options Pricing•7 minutes
- Why Options exist•9 minutes
- Ubiquity of Options•6 minutes
- Put / Call parity•9 minutes
- Using Options to Hedge•8 minutes
3 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Lesson #12 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #13 Quiz•30 minutes
- Module 5 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
In module 6, Professor Shiller introduces investment banking, underwriting processes, brokers, dealers, exchanges, and new innovations in financial markets.
What's included
19 videos4 assignments
19 videos•Total 141 minutes
- Investment Banks Introduction•6 minutes
- The Underwriting Process•11 minutes
- IPOs•7 minutes
- Goldman Sachs and John Whitehead•5 minutes
- Ratings Agencies•5 minutes
- Glass Steagall•5 minutes
- Net Worth of the US•8 minutes
- The Prudent Person•5 minutes
- Salon - Advisors•10 minutes
- Mutual Funds and ETFs•10 minutes
- Brokers and Dealers•8 minutes
- Exchanges•6 minutes
- Limit Order Book•4 minutes
- High Frequency Trading•6 minutes
- Payment for Order Flow•7 minutes
- Government Debt•12 minutes
- Government involvement in Corporations•6 minutes
- Municipal Finance•9 minutes
- Government Social Insurance•11 minutes
4 assignments•Total 120 minutes
- Lesson #14 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #15 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #16 Quiz•30 minutes
- Module 6 Honors Quiz•30 minutes
Professor Shiller's final module includes lectures about nonprofits and corporations, and your career in finance.
What's included
15 videos3 assignments
15 videos•Total 194 minutes
- Nonprofits•11 minutes
- Cooperatives•8 minutes
- Alternative Forms•6 minutes
- Salon - Public vs. Private•5 minutes
- Critics of Modern Finance•6 minutes
- Democratization of Finance•9 minutes
- Salon - Democratization of Finance•8 minutes
- Finance and War•8 minutes
- Finance and Population Growth•2 minutes
- The Importance of Financial Theory•4 minutes
- Wealth and Poverty•7 minutes
- Your Career and Finance•9 minutes
- Interview with Roger Ferguson•26 minutes
- Interview with Lei Zhang•17 minutes
- Guest Georgia Keohane•66 minutes
3 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Lesson #17 Quiz•30 minutes
- Lesson #18 Quiz•30 minutes
- Final Exam•30 minutes
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New York Institute of Finance
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Reviewed on Oct 25, 2021
This course is so useful to know about finance in depth it gives more examples about the finance . It help to make more decision in finance market. It also motivate students to attract towards finance
Reviewed on Nov 3, 2018
This was really a great experience. A course taught by a valued teach. Enjoyed it all the way though I would have liked more mathematical and theoretical models. But then where do you end in a MOOC ?
Reviewed on Aug 21, 2024
This course is so useful to know about finance in depth it gives more examples about the finance . It help to make more decision in finance market. It also motivate students to attract towards finance
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Professor Shiller has made some pretty amazing updates to his course; not only do you see updated lectures from 2016-2017, he also has additional videos which include student salons, chalk talks, interviews, and TA timeouts. Join us in the course, watch the introductory module, and learn more about these great additions to increase your knowledge of financial markets!
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