This 4-minute video lesson gives the basics of a deflationary spiral. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 171 of 184]
This 4-minute video lesson discusses the basics of hyperinflation. It looks at Weimar Germany, Hungarian Pengo and the Zibabwean Dollar. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 172 of 184]
This 9-minute video lesson explains what it means to buy a bond. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 54 of 184]
This 10-minute video lesson considers a choice between money now and money later. It is the first in a series of 4 videoson Present Value. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 3 of 184]
This 3-minute video lesson explains why there tends to be moderate inflation during good economies. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 161 of 184]
This 10-minute video lesson discusses more choices as to when you get your money. It is the 2nd of a 4-part series on Present Value.[Core Finance playlist: Lesson 4 of 184]
This 3-minute video lesson looks at inflation and real and nominal return. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 163 of 184]
This 4-minute video lesson looks at the relation between nominal and real returns and inflation. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 165 of 184]
This 14-minute video lesson explains why bond prices move inversely to changes in interest rate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 55 of 184]
This 3-minute video lesson looks at how a supply shock can cause prices to rise and the economy to stagnate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 162 of 184]
This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]
This 7-minute video lesson considers the virtuous circle of housing price appreciation making defaults go down making lending lax making housing appreciate even more. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 16 of 184]
This 9-minute video lesson looks at why housing prices went up so much from 2000-2006 even though classical supply/demand would not have called for it. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 13 of 184]
This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]
This 4-minute video lesson explains how the velocity of money can drive price increases. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 169 of 184]
This 11-minute video lesson explains how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 42 of 184]
This 11-minute video lesson continues to look at how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 43 of 184]
This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]
This course 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.
The objective of this course is to learn the financial tools needed to make good business decisions. The course presents the basic insights of corporate finance theory, but emphasizes the application of theory to real business decisions. Each session involves class discussion, some centered on lectures and others around business cases.