Asset pricing and financial contracts
A.A. 2018/2019
Obiettivi formativi
The first part of the course aims to provide a good knowledge of the core principles and topics of modern asset pricing theory. It presents key concepts, relations, and models of asset pricing to develop a sound understanding of the pricing of financial assets under realistic conditions of a multiperiod stochastic environment with incomplete markets. The Asset Pricing module covers various theories from the Stochastic Discount Factor Theory to the Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model and discusses practical issues such as the equity premium puzzle. The second part of the course aims to provide the students with the basic principles of modern contract theory. The main concepts are discussed within a unified framework. After having introduced the basic model of symmetric information, the case of asymmetric information is discussed, in relation with the problems of moral hazard, adverse selection and signaling. The analytical tools developed are then used to analyze issues related to credit and insurance markets.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
Non definiti
Periodo: Secondo trimestre
Modalità di valutazione: Esame
Giudizio di valutazione: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Corso singolo
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Programma e organizzazione didattica
Edizione unica
Responsabile
Periodo
Secondo trimestre
Informazioni sul programma
The course is in two parts: Asset Pricing and Financial Contracts. Please see the corresponding programs
Propedeuticità
Decision Theory and Behavioural Economics
Prerequisiti
For the Asset Pricing module: Written exam (approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes). The exam covers all the topics presented during lectures and it consists of a series of open-ended questions which may include calculations and/or explanation and/or technical analysis. The exam aims to verify that the course objectives have been achieved; i.e. that students have learned the theory, and know how to use macroeconomic concepts to interpret economic events and data, and to analyze simple policy issues. For the Financial Contracts model: Written exam (approximately 1 hour). The exam covers all the topics presented during lectures and it consists of a series of questions and exercises. The exam aims to verify that the course objectives have been achieved, that is: students have learnt the economic intuition of the models presented in the lessons and are able to apply the key concepts to practical cases.
Module Asset Pricing
Programma
List of Topics
1. Financial markets and institutions
2. Single period securities markets
3. Risk aversion and risk premium
4. The Euler Equation and the Stochastic Discount Factor (SDF)
5. Mean Variance Frontier and Beta Representations
6. The Relationship Between the SDF, Betas, and Mean-Variance Frontiers
7. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
8. The Intertemporal and Consumption-Based CAPM
9. The Arbitrage Pricing Theory
10. The Equity Premium Puzzle
1. Financial markets and institutions
2. Single period securities markets
3. Risk aversion and risk premium
4. The Euler Equation and the Stochastic Discount Factor (SDF)
5. Mean Variance Frontier and Beta Representations
6. The Relationship Between the SDF, Betas, and Mean-Variance Frontiers
7. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
8. The Intertemporal and Consumption-Based CAPM
9. The Arbitrage Pricing Theory
10. The Equity Premium Puzzle
Metodi didattici
Lectures. Power point presentations will generally be available on the Ariel website.
Materiale di riferimento
Stanley R. Pliska, Introduction to Mathematical Finance, Blackwell, 1997. Chapter 1.
Jhon H. Cochrane, Asset Pricing. Revised edition, Princeton University Press, 2005. Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.
Chi-Fu Huang and Robert H. Litzenberger, Foundations for Financial Economics, Prentice Hall (Elsevier Science Ltd.), 1988. Chapters: 5, 6, 7.
Jhon H. Cochrane, Asset Pricing. Revised edition, Princeton University Press, 2005. Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.
Chi-Fu Huang and Robert H. Litzenberger, Foundations for Financial Economics, Prentice Hall (Elsevier Science Ltd.), 1988. Chapters: 5, 6, 7.
Module Financial Contracts
Programma
Part I): Theory
- The principal-agent model.
- Contractual design under perfect information.
- Contractual design under imperfect information (I): moral-hazard.
- Contractual design under imperfect information (II): adverse selection.
- Contracts and signaling.
Part II) Applications
- Insurance.
- The lender-borrower relationship.
- Financial intermediation.
- Banks as delegated monitors.
- Credit rationing and the role of collateral;
- The principal-agent model.
- Contractual design under perfect information.
- Contractual design under imperfect information (I): moral-hazard.
- Contractual design under imperfect information (II): adverse selection.
- Contracts and signaling.
Part II) Applications
- Insurance.
- The lender-borrower relationship.
- Financial intermediation.
- Banks as delegated monitors.
- Credit rationing and the role of collateral;
Metodi didattici
Lectures
Materiale di riferimento
I. MACHO-STADLER-J.D. PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, An Introduction to the Economics of Information: Incentives and Contracts, Oxford University Press, last edition.
II. X. FREIXAS-J.C. ROCHET, Microeconomics of banking, MIT Press, 2008 (second edition).
II. X. FREIXAS-J.C. ROCHET, Microeconomics of banking, MIT Press, 2008 (second edition).
Moduli o unità didattiche
Module Asset Pricing
SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA - CFU: 6
Lezioni: 40 ore
Docente:
Missale Alessandro
Module Financial Contracts
SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA - CFU: 6
Lezioni: 40 ore
Docente:
Colombo Stefano
Docente/i
Ricevimento:
Mercoledì, 10:30-13:00
DEMM, via Conservatorio 7, stanza 5 secondo piano