Mathematical Financial Economics

Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis: Portfolio Selection: Introductory Comments.- Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis: The Markowitz Model.- Solution to the Markowitz Optimization Problem.- Properties of Efficient Portfolios.- The Markowitz Model with a Risk-Free Asset.- Efficient Portfolios in a Market with a Risk-Free Asset.- Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).- CAPM Continued.- Factor Models and the Ross-Huberman APT.- Problems and Exercises I.- Derivative Securities Pricing: Dynamic Securities Market Model.- Risk-Neutral Pricing.- The Cox-Ross-Rubinstein Binomial Model.- American Derivative Securities.- From Binomial Model to Black-Scholes Formula.- Problems and Exercises II.- Growth and Equilibrium: Capital Growth Theory: Continued.- General Equilibrium Analysis of Financial Markets.- Behavioral Equilibrium and Evolutionary Dynamics.- Problems and Exercises III.- Mathematical Appendices: Facts from Linear Algebra.- Convexity and Optimization.- Sources.

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