Financial Modeling Courses

Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions - CAPM Model

Explore how diversification, efficient frontiers, tangency portfolios, and CAPM connect portfolio risk, expected return, and financial institutions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Finding Your Purpose in a World of Financial Capitalism - Lecture 23

A broad reflection on the morality, social role, and democratization of finance, with perspectives on inequality, financial contracts, and finding purposeful careers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Leverage Cycle and Crashes - Financial Theory Lecture 26

A mathematical model of leverage cycles explains how bad news, uncertainty, and collapsing leverage amplify asset-price crashes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Risk Aversion and the Capital Asset Pricing Model - Financial Theory

Explores risk aversion, expected utility, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model’s implications for equilibrium prices, hedging, and diversification.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modeling Mortgage Prepayments and Valuing Mortgages

Models mortgage prepayments as a refinancing option to forecast mortgage value, explain risk, and guide hedging.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Backward Induction and Optimal Stopping Times in Financial Theory - Lecture 16

Uses backward induction to analyze optimal stopping games, from chess strategy to the optimal marriage problem.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Yield Curve Arbitrage and Market Interest Rates - Financial Theory

Infer zero-coupon bond prices and forward interest rates from Treasury bond prices using replication and the principle of duality.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Financial Theory - Present Value and Basic Financial Instruments

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice illuminates collateral, interest, and present value before introducing bonds, annuities, perpetuities, and mortgages.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Irving Fisher's Impatience Theory of Interest - Financial Theory Lecture

Explores Irving Fisher’s impatience theory to explain how patience, productivity, windfalls, and wealth redistribution shape nominal and real interest rates.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Present Value Prices and the Real Rate of Interest - Financial Theory

Explores how general equilibrium determines present-value asset prices and real interest rates, and why inflation separates real from nominal returns.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility - Financial Markets

Examines whether stock prices follow efficient-market and random-walk theories, using statistical models to test market predictability.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution - Financial Markets

Explore how insurance pools risks, addresses moral hazard and selection bias, and evolved through innovation and government regulation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Use Modeling to Develop Positive Behaviors - Lesson 7

Learn to deliberately model positive behaviors for your child, reinforce them with praise, and avoid modeling behaviors you want them to avoid.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Financial Markets - Introduction to Risk Management and Behavioral Finance Principles

Explores how financial institutions and market mechanisms help society manage risk and support enterprise.

• YouTube
• 1 day 3 hours 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Financial Theory

Develops financial equilibrium as an extension of economic equilibrium, tracing how time, risk, asset pricing, and leverage shape financial markets.

• YouTube
• 1 day 7 hours 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video