Covers financial economics basics, including time value of money, risk/return tradeoff, and capital structure, preparing students for real-world financial decision-making.
Explores the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the risk-return trade-off theory in financial economics, focusing on risk premiums and efficient portfolios.
Explores stochastic optimization in portfolio management, emphasizing decision criteria for uncertain objectives and the concept of conditional value-at-risk.
Covers investment decisions, focusing on annuities, discounting costs, and evaluating profitability through net present value and internal rates of return.
Explores the Decision Theory Framework in Statistical Theory, viewing statistics as a random game with key concepts like admissibility, minimax rules, and Bayes rules.