Lecture Notes for Finance
These notes are intended for the introductory finance course mathematics economics program at the University of Copenhagen. Topics covered includes: The role of financial markets, Payment Streams under Certainty, Arbitrage pricing in a one-period model, Option pricing, The Black-Scholes formula, Stochastic Interest Rates and Portfolio Theory.
Author(s): David Lando, Simon Ellersgaard Nielsen and Rolf Poulsen
176 Pages 
Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance
Objective of this note is to provide a basic framework of public finance at the macroeconomic level, starting from fiscal and monetary policy in a standard macroeconomics, public debt in a growing economy, cost-benefit analysis, public goods, international debt and international tax issues. Topics covered includes: Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Structure of the Budgetary Process, Revenue Forecasting, Public Debt, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Public Goods and Bads, Local Public Finance, Finance and Development, International Issues in Public Finance and Social Security
Author(s): Hitotsubashi University
NA Pages
Introduction to Finance by J L Rosenthal
This note introduces key concepts and issues in finance. Topics covered includes: From claims to value, Value for Issuers, Exchange mechanisms, Modern Finance, Asymmetric Information, Pricing riskless Bonds, Risk, The Portfolio approach to risk, Market efficiency, Intermediaries and assets, Options and Hedging, Government and financial structure.
Author(s): J L Rosenthal
NA Pages
Computer Intensive Methods For Stochastic Models in Finance
This note explains the Simulation of random variables, stochastic processes and stochastic models in finance.
Author(s): Don L. Mcleish
NA Pages
This note covers the following topics: Financial Statements in Financial Analysis, Corporate Financial Risk Measures, Corporate Financial Planning, Taxation and Investment Returns, The Mathematics of Finance, Fixed Income Securities and Debt Markets, Equity Securities and Equity Markets, Business Investments, Cost of Capital and Corporate Performance Evaluation.
Author(s): Dr. George Blazenko
NA Pages
Financial Derivatives and Banking
Derivatives are sound investment vehicles that make investing and business practices more efficient and reliable. This book describes the following topics: Derivative Securities, Futures and Forwards: Trading Mechanism and Pricing, Use Of Futures For Hedging, Interest Rate Futures, Swap Markets, Option Markets, Option Pricing, Strategies Involving Options, Derivative Markets In India: Evolution and Regulation.
Author(s): Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar - Haryana
250 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
The A B C of finance or The money and labor questions familiarly explained to common people
This book covers the following topics: What Society does for the Laborer, Capital and Labor, Starvation Wages, One Dollar, Value cannot be given by Government, The Value of Paper Money, Why has the Greenback any Value, The Mystery of Money, Evil of a Depreciating Currency: A Few Facts, The Lessons of History, The Public Faith, The Cause and the Remedy.
Author(s): Simon Newcomb
128 Pages
This course note introduces the core theory of modern financial economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and investments. Topics include functions of capital markets and financial intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed-income securities, common stocks, capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction to derivatives and options.
Author(s): Prof.Andrew Lo
NA Pages
The objective of this lecture note is to learn the financial tools needed to make good business decisions and presents the basic insights of corporate finance theory, but emphasizes the application of theory to real business decisions.
Author(s): Prof. Dirk Jenter and Prof. Katharina Lewellen
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
