Financial
Markets

Robert Schiller - Yale University

1. Introduction & What this Course will Do For You & Your Purposes

2. Risk, & Financial Crisis

3. Technology & Invention in Finance

4. Portfolio Diversification & Supporting Financial Institutions

5. Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution, it's Opportunities & Vulnerabilities

6. Guest Speaker - David Swensen

7. Efficient Markets

8. Theory of Debt, it's Proper Role, Leverage Cycles

9. Corporate Stocks

10. Real Estate

11. Behavioural Finance & The Role of Psychology

12. Misbehaviour, Crisis, Regulation, & Self-Regulation

13. Banks

14. Guest Speaker Maurice "Hank" Greenberg

15. Forward & Future Markets

16. Guest Speaker Laura Cha

17. Options Markets

18. Monetary Policy 

19. Investment Banks

20. Professional Money Managers & Their Influence

21. Exchanges, Brokers, Dealers, Clearinghouses

22. Public & Non-Profit Finance

23. Finding your Purpose in a World of Financial Capitalism