Asset Pricing Theory 2011 Spring

General Information

• Course Number: C120742
• Lectures: Thursday 9:00am-11:45am, Antai 302
• Office Hour: Wednesday 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment
• Office: North Building #413
• Phone: 021-52301191
• Email: junhuiq At gmail.com

Prerequisites

• Econometrics I (advanced probability and statistics)

Outline

• Introduction to General Asset Pricing Theory
• Mathematical Background for Continuous-time Finance
• Arbitrage Pricing in Continuous Time
• Term Structure Modeling
• Econometric Issues

Grading

• Four problem sets (20%) and final exam (80%). Group study is allowed for problem sets. The exam is close-book.

Textbooks

• An Introduction to Asset Pricing Theory

The following books are helpful:

1. Darrell Duffie, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, Princeton University Press, 2001
2. John H. Cochrane, Asset Pricing, Princeton University Press, 2005
3. Stephen F. LeRoy and Jan Werner, Principles of Financial Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2001
4. Rose-Anne Dana and Monique Jeanblanc, Financial Markets in Continuous Time, Springer, 2007
5. Shreve, S.E., Stochastic Calculus for Finance I and II, Springer, 2000
6. 约翰·C·赫尔，期货期权入门，中国人民大学出版社，2000
7. Karatzas, I. and Shreve, S.E., Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, 2nd Ed., 世界图书出版社

Resources

• Using MATLAB to Develop Asset-Pricing Models

Last updated: Feb 16, 2011