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Mid-Term I, Monday, July 19, 1999

As a fundemental course in Investments, we attempt to introduce the well-known paradigms of valuation as well as foundations of wealth allocation. We would also briefly study the existing structure of financial markets and instruments.
This course would cover following topics:

• Introduction to Investments
• Financial Markets and Instruments
• Options and Derivatives
• Risk and Return
• Allocation of Capital
• Asset Pricing Models
• Behavioral Finance

Though there are many calculator that you can use for this course, the basic logical structure of their (financial calculators) programs is same. We would provide an Introduction to Financial Calculators, so that everybody knows what should you do for classical finance problems. If you are not a business major, as long as you have a calculator which does perform exponential operations (raising a number to some power), you can use your calculator along with equations (in textbook) to solve any financial problem.

Since many students have raised concern with respect to "memorizing too many equations", in order to assure that everyone has access to correct and relevant information, I have prepared a Formulae Sheet for your daily use and/or for test purpose. Please note that not all formulae in the sheet are discussed in class and some of the more fundamental concepts is not included either. (click here for Microsoft Word version).

Since THE MOST WANTED topics among students is WHAT IS ON THE TEST, I have provided you with sample tests and quizzes so you could refer to these as a GUIDE for your test. This by no means implies that you should suffice to sample tests for your exam, but rather the sample tests should be sued as merely a GUIDELINE! Your text book, my lectures and any other relevant source are pertinent part of your exams.

List of Tests
List of Exams Mid Term I Mid Term II Final

Since one of our most pertinent objectives is to familiarize ourselves with technical tools of business, in particular finance, I have selected number of Microsoft Excel based spreadsheet homeworks. Students may find the instructions for every homework from relative page and hand in a diskette containing their homeworks. To see an example of such homework, you can refer to sample homework to observe an spreadsheet solution to a typical finance problem. Students are strongly advised to set aside time to learn and practice Excel at privacy of their home. One good source for learning software is of course reference books! however, ZD University provides a free trial for its online tutorials.

List of Home Works:
List of Home Works Home Work I Home Work II Home Work III

Thanks to pioneers of experimental economics, namely Professor Smith of our Economics department, in past couple decades or so, experiments have become a pertinent part of Economics. As students of financial economics, we also intend to exploit such opportunities to expand our knowledge of subject matter and, learn some of the practical details of financial markets and institution through exercise. For this, we play three different games:

• Market Making Game
• Stock Trading

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