EC4024 Midterm Resit
The Midterm resit will be held from 4-5 in HSG-037, right after the lecture. Please note you’ll need to show me a medical cert to take the exam.
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EC4024 Problem Set 2
In the interests of maintaining sanity, I’ll put the second problem set up next Monday to give everyone a breather.
I gather 2nd Year economics majors have been mid-termed and projected out this and last week.
EC4024 Problem Set Marks
Click below to find the (revised) problem set marks (both are out of 100) well done to everyone, any questions, please email me.
Also taggedEC4024, Financial Economics, Final Lecture
It’s ovah!
Hhere are the lecture slides for the last lecture on Friday, and I’ll set up office hours next week.
Thanks to everyone for making this an interesting class to teach!
EC4024 Lecture 19: Neurofinance
The penultimate lecture takes students right up to the cutting edge of behavioural finance: neurofinance.
Neurofinance is a fusion of behavioural economics and neuroeconomics.
I know that’s not too helpful yet. Behavioural economics in its modern incarnation looks at persistent deviations from the basic description of the hyper rational homo economicus. Proponents of the theory argue that [...]
The IMF on Crisis and Recovery
The IMF released it’s World Economic Outlook report, which has some interesting things to say about the international economic situation. Pay particular attention to page 105, where they contrast today’s economic outlook with the Great Depression. This report resonates well with the recent work of O’Rourke and Eichengreen, too.
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“We have an irrational tendency to be less willing to gamble with profits than with losses..”
––Tvede (1999)
In these lectures, we’ll build on the insights of the Efficient and Adaptive Markets hypotheses, and have a go at puling them down at the same time. This might sound contradictory, but it’s not. All science (even a pseudo-science [...]
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Tomorrow’s lecture will review the functions of the ECB and discuss the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy with regard to the interaction of the central bank and very large, institutional investors. We’ll use pensions as an example of a very large institutional fund which has direct effects on the population when things go wrong.
Here’s a [...]
EC4024 Financial Economics Problem Set 2
Here’s problem set 2, get your excel on folks. It’s due in on Monday, 20th April.
ec4024_2009_PS2.pdf
Data
Dollar Euro.xls
Ryanair vs’ Bank of Ireland.xls
Sterling Euro.xls