“Financial Markets - Yale” plus 3 more Courses 

 Financial Markets - Yale

 Astrobiology and Space Exploration, Winter 2010 - Stanford
 Introduction to Econometrics - University of Oregon
 Modern Physics: Cosmology - Stanford

Financial Markets - Yale

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST
Finance and Insurance, Technology and Invention, Portfolio Diversification, Efficient
Markets vs. Excess Volatility, Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation and Regulation,
Stocks, Real Estate Finance, Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets. 

Lecture 1: 1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
Lecture 2: 2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of
Risks
Lecture 3: 3. Technology and Invention in Finance
Lecture 4: 4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM
Model)
Lecture 5: 5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
Lecture 6: 6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
Lecture 7: 7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
Lecture 8: 8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen
Lecture 10: 10. Debt Markets: Term Structure
Lecture 11: 11. Stocks
Lecture 12: 12. Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis
Lecture 13: 13. Banking: Successes and Failures
14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
Lecture 16: 16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Lecture 17: 17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
Lecture 18: 18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
Lecture 19: 19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
Lecture 21: 21. Forwards and Futures
Lecture 22: 22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
Lecture 23: 23. Options Markets
Lecture 24: 24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
Lecture 25: 25. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis I (Lawrence Summers)
Lecture 26: 26. Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis II (Lawrence
Summers)

           

Astrobiology and Space Exploration, Winter 2010 - Stanford

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST

Lecture 1: 2. From Astrochemistry to Astrobiology

Lecture 2: 3. The Search for other Earths and Life in the Universe
Lecture 3: 4. What is Life?
Lecture 4: 5. Evolution
Lecture 5: 6. Life in Extreme Environments
Lecture 6: 7. How Predictable Is Evolution?
Lecture 7: 8. Catastrophic Impacts in Earth's History
Lecture 8: 9. The Search for Life on Mars
Lecture 9: 10. Darwin's Birthday
Lecture 10: 11. Life Beyond It's Planet of Origin
Lecture 11: 12. Biologically Reversible Exploration
Lecture 12: 14. Advanced Life Support Systems
Lecture 13: 15. A Human Place in Outer Space
Lecture 14: 16. A Life with SETI
            

Introduction to Econometrics - University of Oregon

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST
This course looks at what happens when the conditions are less than ideal due to
departures from the assumptions necessary for ordinary least squares to be the best
linear unbiased estimator, and provides alternative regression techniques that address
problems arising from the violations of the basic assumptions. 

Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 1

Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 2
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 3
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 4
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 5
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 6
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 7
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 8
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 9
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 10
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 11
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 12
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 13
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 14
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 15
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 16
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 17
Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2009 - Lecture 18
            

Modern Physics: Cosmology - Stanford

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST
The topics covered in this course focus on cosmology. The course is taught by Leonard
Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. 

Cosmology | Lecture 1
Cosmology | Lecture 2
Cosmology | Lecture 3
Cosmology | Lecture 4
Cosmology | Lecture 5
Cosmology | Lecture 6
Cosmology | Lecture 7
Cosmology | Lecture 8