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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Foundations of Modern Finance I

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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A mathematically rigorous framework to understand financial markets delivered with data-driven insights from MIT professors.

Syllabus

  • Valuation of fixed income securities and common stocks
  • Risk analysis, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
  • Introduction to corporate finance and capital budgeting
  • Valuation of derivative securities
  • Portfolio theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  • Corporate financial decisions
  • Real options, capital structure, payout policy, corporate bonds; and
  • Interaction between investment and financing decisions

Taught by

Leonid Kogan, Egor Matveyev, and Jiang Wang

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