{"id":2966,"date":"2010-12-27T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2017-02-26T02:01:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T02:01:58","slug":"financial-markets-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/investing\/financial-markets-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Financial Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Markets is an online course by <a href=\"http:\/\/yale.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yale<\/a> with <strong>a look into how our financial institutions function.<\/strong> The course is broken down into the following sections:<\/p>\n<h5><a title=\"Syllabus\" href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08#syllabus\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong><\/a> Course syllabus.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Class sessions:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-1\" target=\"_blank\">1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-2\" target=\"_blank\">2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-3\" target=\"_blank\">3. Technology and Invention in Finance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-4\" target=\"_blank\">4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-5\" target=\"_blank\">5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-6\" target=\"_blank\">6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-7\" target=\"_blank\">7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-8\" target=\"_blank\">8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-9\" target=\"_blank\">9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-10\" target=\"_blank\">10. Debt Markets: Term Structure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/exam-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Midterm Exam 1<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-11\" target=\"_blank\">11. Stocks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-12\" target=\"_blank\">12. Real Estate Finance and Its Vulnerability to Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-13\" target=\"_blank\">13. Banking: Successes and Failures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-14\" target=\"_blank\">14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-15\" target=\"_blank\">15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-16\" target=\"_blank\">16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/exam-2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Midterm Exam 2<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-17\" target=\"_blank\">17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-18\" target=\"_blank\">18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-19\" target=\"_blank\">19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-20\" target=\"_blank\">20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-21\" target=\"_blank\">21. Forwards and Futures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-22\" target=\"_blank\">22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-23\" target=\"_blank\">23. Options Markets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-24\" target=\"_blank\">24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-25\" target=\"_blank\">25. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/lecture-26\" target=\"_blank\">26. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II (Guest Lecture by Lawrence Summers)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\/exam-3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Final Exam<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The course is available under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Creative Commons License<\/a> can be accessed directly here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oyc.yale.edu\/economics\/econ-252-08\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Markets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Markets is an online course by Yale with a look into how our financial institutions function. The course is broken down into the following sections: Syllabus: Course syllabus. Class sessions: 1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society 2. 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