Picking the Right Investments Investment Analysis
This note covers the following topics: The notion of a benchmark, The Capital Asset Pricing Model, The Importance of Diversification, The Effects of Diversification, The Market Portfolio, Risk Aversion and Risk Premiums, Implied Equity Premiums, Estimating Performance, Estimating Boeings Beta, Fundamental Determinants of Betas, From Cost of Equity to Cost of Capital.
Author(s): Aswath Damodaran
106 Pages 
A European Public Investment Outlook
This book online A European Public Investment Outlook covers the following topics related to Investments : Europe Needs More Public Investment, Public Investment and Capital in France, Public Investment in Germany: The Need for a Big Push, Public Investment Trends across Levels of Government in Italy, Trends and Patterns in Public Investment in Spain: A Medium- and Long-Run Perspective, In Search of a Strategy for Public Investment in Research and Innovation, Social Investment and Infrastructure, From Trans-European (Ten-T) to Trans-Global (Twn-T) Transport Infrastructure Networks. A Conceptual Framework, Ecological Transition, The Contribution of European Cohesion Policy to Public Investment.
Author(s): Franco Bassanini, Alberto Quadrio Curzio, and Xavier Ragot
NA Pages
Connectors and Influencers NYU
The document is a free PDF book that examines the impact of information on financial markets, which is a crucial consideration for investments. It investigates how news events and the accuracy and timeliness of information affect market outcomes and stock market returns. The book provides insights into the relationship between information and financial markets and how investors can benefit from a better understanding of this relationship. The document can be a valuable resource for investors and financial professionals seeking to improve their investment decisions by understanding how information drives market activity. Overall, the book offers important insights into the role of information in investments and financial markets.
Author(s): Syngjoo Choi, Frédéric Moisan, and Sanjeev Goyal, New York University Abu Dhabi
75 Pages
This note covers the following topics: Matrices and Programming, Prices, Probabilities, Risk and Return, Optimization, Factor Models, Style Analysis, Equilibrium, Performance Measurement.
Author(s): William F. Sharpe
NA Pages
Fixed Income Securities Lecture Notes
This note explores key concepts in understanding fixed income instruments. This note will comprehensively cover topics related to fixed income instruments, including nominal yields, effective yields, yield to maturity, spot rates, forward rates, present value, future value, mortgage payments, term structure of interest rates, bond price sensitivity to interest rate changes, hedging, horizon analysis, credit risk, default probability, recovery rates, floaters, inverse floaters, swaps, forward rate agreements, Eurodollars, convertible bonds, callable bonds, interest rate models, risk neutral pricing, and fixed income arbitrage.
Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov
424 Pages
Foreign Direct Investment Analysis of Aggregate Flows
This book provides a treatise of the unique features of FDI flows, covering both theory and data. It focuses on the determinants of the aggregate flows of FDI at the source-host country level. The book is likely to find its main readership among academics, graduate students, and trained policy professionals.
Author(s): Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
215 Pages
Topics in Asset Pricing Lecture Notes
This note covers the following topics: From CAPM to market anomalies, Credit risk implications for the cross section of asset returns, Rational versus behavioural attributes of stylized cross-sectional effects, Conditional CAPM, Conditional versus unconditional portfolio efficiency, Multi-factor models, Interpreting factor models, Machine learning methods in asset pricing: Lasso, Ridge, elastic net, group Lasso, Neural Network, and Random Forest, Panel regressions with fixed effects and their association with market-timing and cross-section, investment strategies, Consumption based asset pricing models, The discount factor representation in asset pricing, The equity premium puzzle, The risk free rate puzzle, The Epstein-Zin preferences.
Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov
248 Pages
