Lecture Notes Financial Econometrics (PDF 554P)

Notes on Corporate Finance

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

Business Finance Online Notes by Tim

Finance is a broad term that is used regarding the management, creation, and study of money and investment. This PDF book covers the following topics related to Business Finance : Introduction to Finance, Time Value of Money, Interest Rates, Bonds, Bankruptcy and Reoganization, Financial Statements and Free Cash Flow, Analysis of Financial Statements, Stock Valuation, Risk and Return, Cost of Capital, Capital Budgeting and Evaluating Cash Flows, Project Cash Flow Estimation, Corporate Governance.

Author(s): Tim Murray, PhD Virginia Military Institute

104 Pages

Lecture Notes for Finance

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

Public Finance by University Of Mumbai

Public Finance is the study of government policy from the point of economic efficiency and equity. Topics covered includes: Sound Finance and Functional Finance, Fiscal Policy: Budget and Taxation, Indian Public Finance.

Author(s): University Of Mumbai

123 Pages

International Financial Management Lecture Notes

This note explains the following topics: Foreign Exchange (FX) Markets, Bonus Coverage, Determinants of FX Rates, Currency Derivatives, Government Influence on FX Rates, Bonus Coverage: Central Banks, Arbitrage in FX Markets, Theories of FX Determination, Forecasting Exchange Rates, Measuring FX Exposure, Managing Economic Exposure, Multinational Capital Budgeting, Long Term Financing Bonds.

Author(s): Rauli Susmel

256 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

Theory of Finance I

This course introduces ideas and techniques that form the foundations of theory of finance. Topics covered includes: Individual decision making, Game Theory, Economics of Information, Market Microstructure, Choice Under Uncertainty, Equilibrium and Efficiency, Financial Markets, Mean Variance Analysis.

Author(s): Sandeep Kapur

NA Pages

Analytics of Finance

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

Lecture Notes Financial Econometrics (PDF 554P)

This course note attempts to provide a fairly deep understanding of topical issues in asset pricing and deliver econometric methods in which to develop research agenda in financial economics.

Author(s): Professor Doron E. Avramov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

554 Pages