040638 Basics of Finance
 

Date
Topics
02.10.2015
Topics:
  • Introduction
  • Financial Systems
09.10.2017
Topics:
  • Financial Systems
    • Information Provision
    • Corporate Governance
  • Financial Decisions and the Theory of Choice
    • Intertemporal Transfer of Funds, Present Value and Future Value
    • Axioms of Choice
16.10.2017
Topics:
  • Financial Decisions and the Theory of Choice
    • Axiom of Decreasing Marginal Utility
    • Optimal Consumption/Investement Decision
23.10.2017
Topics:
  • Fisher Separation and Net Present Value Rule
  • Example 1
Answer the questions of Example 1 on slide III.30
30.10.2017
Topics:
  • Example 2
  • Hedging Risk
Answer the questions of Example 2 on slide III.41/43
06.11.2017
Topics:
  • Some Cornerstones and Key Ideas of Modern Finance
  • Efficient Market Hypothesis: Random Walk Model
13.11.2017
Topics:
  • Efficient Market Hypothesis:
    way towards the EMH, three forms of EMH, empirical facts
20.11.2017
Topics:
  • Efficient Market Hypothesis:
    Empirical Facts, Behavioral Finance
    The case of LTCM, leverage effect
  • The Law of One Price and No-Arbitrage Pricing
27.11.2017
Topics:
  • No-Arbitrage Pricing:
    M&M Irrelevance Theorem on Capital Structure, Derivative Pricing
04.12.2017
Topics:
  • Derivative Pricing (cont)
  • Term Structure of Interest Rates, Forward Rates
11.12.2017
Topics:
  • Expectations Theory for the Term Structure, Yield to Maturity of a Bond
  • Bond Price Volatility (Duration, Convexity)
18.12.2017
Christmas holidays
25.12.2017
Christmas holidays
01.01.2018
Christmas holidays
08.01.2018
Topics:
  • Immunization of a portfolio of bonds
  • Optimal Portfolio Selection and Risk Diversification: Mean-Variance Approach
15.01.2018
Topics:
  • Optimal Portfolio Selection and Risk Diversification: Mean-Variance Approach
22.01.2018
Topics:
  • Duration: example
  • Portfolio Selection: numerical examples
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Tue, 30.01.2018
12.30-14.30
HS 6: 1st Examination date -> information at u:find
Mon, 26.02.2018
16.45-18.45
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Mon, 30.04.2018
16.45-18.45
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Mon, 25.06.2018
16.45-18.45
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