International Finance by NPTEL
This note explains the following topics: International Financial Environment, International Financial Transactions, Gold Standard, Purchasing Power Parity, Floating and Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes, Currency Boards and Currency Basket Systems, Features of Foreign Exchange Market, Exchange Rate Arithmetic, Understanding Merchant Rates, Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts.
Author(s): NPTEL
NA Pages 
This note covers the following topics: Accounting Statements and Cash Flow, Financial Markets and NPV First Principles of Finance, Net Present Value, How to Value Bonds and Stocks, Some Alternative Investment Rules, NPV and Capital Budgeting, Strategy and Analysis in Using NPV, Capital Market Theory, Return and Risk CAPM, An Alternative View of Risk and Return APT, Risk, cost of Capital, and Capital Budget, Corporate financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Market, Long Term Financing An Introduction, Capital Structure Basic Concepts, Capital Structure: Limits to the Use of Debt, Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm, Dividend policy, Issuing Securities to the Public, Long Term Debt, Leasing, Options and Corporate Finance Basic Concepts, Options and Corporate Finance: Extensions and Applications, Warrants and Convertibles, Derivatives and Hedging Risk, Mergers and acquisitions and Financial Distress.
Author(s): Zhipeng Yan
59 Pages
This PDF book covers the following topics related to Finance : Introduction, Payment Streams under Certainty, Arbitrage pricing in a one-period model, Arbitrage pricing in the multi-period model, Option pricing, The Black-Scholes formula, Stochastic Interest Rates, Portfolio Theory, Factor Models of Returns: Arbitrage Pricing Theory, Corporate Finance: Firms’ Financial Decisions, Efficient Capital Markets.
Author(s): David Lando, Rolf Poulsen
188 Pages
This note explains the following topics: The Present Position of the Rupee, The Gold–Exchange Standard, Paper Currency, The Present Position of Gold in India and Proposals for a Gold Currency, Council Bills and Remittance, The Secretary of State’s Reserves and the Cash Balances, Indian Banking, The Indian Rate of Discount.
Author(s): John Maynard Keynes
NA Pages
Principles of Finance by Helmut Elsinger
This note covers the following topics: Single-period random cash flows, Stocks, Mean-variance portfolio theory, Utility theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Factor models, Multi-period deterministic cash flows, Fixed income securities, Floating rate.
Author(s): Helmut Elsinger
260 Pages
An Introduction to Computational Finance
This note covers the following topics: The First Option Trade, The Black-Scholes Equation, The Risk Neutral World, Monte Carlo Methods, The Binomial Model, Derivative Contracts on non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Derivative Contracts on non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Jump Diffusion, Regime Switching, Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization.
Author(s): Peter Forsyth
123 Pages
Goal of this note is to teach an introduction relevant for computer scientists, which may be both broader and shallower than traditional Computational Finance. Topics coverted includes: Derivatives, Time Series Analysis, Trading, Investment Strategies, Fundamentals of Investing, Stocks vs. Bonds, Financial Markets, Common Stocks, Stock Prices.
Author(s): Steven Skiena
NA Pages
Introduction to public finance
This book contains a simple outline of those things which are necessary to prepare the student for independent research; a brief discussion of the leading principles that are generally accepted , a statement of unsettled principles with the grounds for controversy and sufficient references to easily accessible works and sources to enable the student to form some opinion for himself. Topics covered includes: Public Expenditure, Public Revenues, Public Indebtedness and Financial Administration.
Author(s): Plehn, Carl C
477 Pages
This course note covers the key quantitative methods of finance: financial econometrics and statistical inference for financial applications, dynamic optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, stochastic calculus. These techniques, along with their computer implementation, are covered in depth.
Author(s): Prof. Leonid Kogan
NA Pages
International Financial Environment
This note is designed to familiarize students with international financial transactions and Operational aspects of foreign exchange markets. One of the major objectives of developing this course note has been to bring in the recent happenings in international finance arena. It focus more on the practical aspects of international finance in conjunction to theoretical constructs.
Author(s): NAPTEL
NA Pages
This book covers the following topics: Interest Rate Calculations, Bond Conventions, Bond Portfolios, Interest Rate Models, Basic Properties of Futures and Options, Binomial Option Pricing Model, Black-Scholes Model and the Distribution of Asset Prices, FX and Interest Rate Options, Trading Volatility.
Author(s): Paul Soderlind
191 Pages
