Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions

1. Introduction
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2. Money, Bonds and Interest Rates
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3. Term Structure of Interest Rates
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4. Theories on Credit Market, Credit Risk and Economic Activity
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5. Empirical Tests on Credit Market and Economic Activity
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6. Approaches to Stock Market and Economic Activity
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7. Macro Factors and the Stock Market
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8. New Technology and the Stock Market
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9. Static Portfolio Theory: CAPM and Extensions
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10. Consumption Based Asset Pricing Models
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11. Asset Pricing Models with Production
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12. Balance Sheets and Financial Instability
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13. Exchange Rate Shocks, Financial Crisis and Output Loss
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14. International Portfolio and the Diversification of Risk
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15. Agent Based and Evolutionary Modeling of Asset Markets
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16. Behavioral Models of Dynamic Asset Pricing
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17. Dynamic Portfolio Choice Models: Theory
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18. Dynamic Portfolio Choice Models: Empirics
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19. Some Empirics on Asset Prices, Leveraging and Credit Crisis
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20. Credit, Credit Derivatives, and Credit Default
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21. The Mechanism of Recent Boom-Bust Cycles: Credit, Complex Securities, and Asset Prices
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22. Financial Instability, Financial Culture and Financial Reform
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23. Exercises
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24. Appendices
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Avainsanat: Economics/Management Science, Financial Economics, Finance/Investment/Banking, Quantitative Finance, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics, Economic Theory