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科目名稱:財務理論研討(一):離散時間模式

Course Name: Seminar on Financial Theory (I): Discrete Time Finance

修別:必

Type of Credit: Required

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

5

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details

課程簡介Course Description

This course introduces fundamental economic theories that basic asset pricing models are based on. After the derivation of CAPM, we will move on to a brief introduction on contingent claims and proceed with more modern setup of stochastic discount factor.

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    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    To equip the Ph.D. students with fundamental knowledge in finance, especially in the branch of asset pricing.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    1. Preferences, Expected Utility Representation
      * H-L Chapter 1
      * Ingersoll Chapter 1
      * Campbell Chapter 1
       
    2. Stochastic Dominance
      * H-L Chapter 2
      * Campbell Chap 1
      * Ingersoll Chapter 5
       
    3. Mean Variance Analysis – The Individual’s Problem
      * H-L Chapter 3
      * Campbell Chap 2
      * Ingersoll Chapter 3
       
    4. CAPM
      * H-L Chapter 4
      * Campbell Chap 3
      * Ingersoll Chapter 4
      * Merton, Robert C, 1987, A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information, Journal of Finance 42, 483-510.
      # Fama, Eugene F., and James D. MacBeth, 1973, Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests, Journal of Political Economy 81, 607-636.
      * Chchrane Chap 12.3
      # Shanken, Jay and Guofu Zhou, 2007, Estimating and testing beta pricing models: Alternative methods and their performance in simulations, Journal of Financial Economics 84, 40-86.
       
    5. Arrow-Debreu Securities and General Equilibrium Consideration
      * H-L Chapter 5
      * Ingersoll Chapters 2, 8, 9
       
    6. APT
      * Ingersoll Chap 7
      * Campbell Chap 3
      * Cochrane Chap 9.4 (will be discussed later)
      * Ross, Stephen A, 1976, The Arbitrage Theory of Capital Asset Pricing, Journal of Economic Theory 13, 341-60.
      * Huberman, Gur, 1982, A Simple Approach to Arbitrage Pricing Theory, Journal of Economic Theory 28, 183-91.
      * Huberman, Gur, and Zhenyu Wang, 2005, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, in S.N. Durlauf, and L.E. Blume, eds.: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, forthcoming (Palgrave Macmillan).
       
    7. Introduction to Dynamic Models and Rational Expectations: Lucas Trees
      * Lucas, Robert E, Jr, 1978, Asset Prices in an Exchange Economy, Econometrica 46, 1429-45.
      * Campbell Chap 4, Chap 6
      * Cochrane Chap 1, Chap 4
      * Hansen, Lars Peter, and Kenneth J. Singleton, 1982, Generalized Instrumental Variables Estimation of Nonlinear Rational Expectations Models, Econometrica 50, 1269-86.
       
    8. Factor Pricing Models
      * Cochrane Chap 6, Chap 9
      * Campbell Chap 3
      * Handbook of Finance 1B, Chap 12
      * Fama, Eugene F., and Kenneth R. French, 1992, The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Finance 47, 427-65.
      * Fama, Eugene F., and Kenneth R. French, 1993, Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stock and Bonds, Journal of Financial Economics 33, 3-56.
      * Fama, Eugene F., and Kenneth R. French, 1995, Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns, Journal of Finance 50, 131-55.
      * Fama, Eugene F, and Kenneth R French, 2015, A five-factor asset pricing model, Journal of Financial Economics 116, 1-22.
      * Ang, Andrew, Robert J. Hodrick, Yuhang Xing, and Xiaoyan Zhang, 2006, The Cross-Section of Volatility and Expected Returns, Journal of Finance 61, 259-99.
      * Jegadeesh, Narasimhan, and Sheridan Titman, 1993, Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency, Journal of Finance 48, 65-91.
      * Pastor, Lubos, and Robert F. Stambaugh, 2003, Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Political Economy 111, 642-685.
      # Goyenko, Ruslan Y., Craig W. Holden, and Charles A. Trzcinka, 2009, Do liquidity measures measure liquidity?, Journal of Financial Economics 92 2, 153-81.
      # Harvey, Campbell R., Yan Liu, and Heqing Zhu, 2016, … and the cross-section of expected returns, The Review of Financial Studies 29, 5-68.
      # Breeden, Douglas T., Michael R. Gibbons, and Robert H. Litzenberger, 1989, Empirical test of the consumption-oriented capm, The Journal of Finance 44, 231-262.
    9. The Equity Premium Puzzle
      * Mehra, Rajnish, and Edward C Prescott, 1985, The Equity Premium: A Puzzle, Journal of Monetary Economics 15, 145-61.
      * Rietz, Thomas A., 1988, The Equity Risk Premium: A Solution, Journal of Monetary Economics 22, 117-31.
      Mehra, Rajnish, and Edward C. Prescott, 1988, The Equity Risk Premium: A Solution?, Journal of Monetary Economics 22, 133-36.
      Barro, Robert J., 2006, Rare Disasters and Asset Markets in the Twentieth Century, Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, 823-66.
      * Handbook of Finance 1B, Chap 14

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    90%

    講述 Lecture

    10%

    討論 Discussion

    0%

    小組活動 Group activity

    0%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他: Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    Final Exam (95%) and Class Participation (5%)

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Cochrane John H 2005. Asset pricing (Princeton University Press Revised edition. Princeton and Oxford). 

    Huang Chi fu and Robert H Litzenberger 1988. Foundations for financial economics (North-Holland; distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Elsevier Science N.Y. New York; Amsterdam and London). 

    Campbell, John Y. 2018. Financial Decisions and Markets (Princeton University Press).

    Ingersoll Jonathan E Jr 1987. Theory of Financial Decision Making (Littlefield Adams; Rowman and Littlefield Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Financial Economics Totowa N.J.). 

    Campbell John Y Andrew W Lo and A Craig MacKinlay 1997. The Econometrics of Financial Markets (Princeton University Press Princeton). 

    Constantinides George M Milton Harris and Rene Stulz 2003. Handbook of the economics of finance. Volume 1A. Corporate finance (Elsevier North Holland Handbooks in Economics vol. 21. Amsterdam; London and New York). 

    Constantinides George M Milton Harris and Rene Stulz 2003. Handbook of the economics of finance. Volume 1B. Financial markets and asset pricing (Elsevier North Holland Handbooks in Economics vol. 21. Amsterdam; London and New York). 

    Cox John C. and Mark Rubinstein 1985. Options Market (Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Clifs New Jersey). 

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