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The Stock Market - Robert Merton
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The Stock Market - Robert Merton

Understand Economics
Created byEDOOTV - The knowledge dispenser
Last updated 5/2015
English

What you'll learn

  • 18 masterclasses and 1 hour and more of content
  • You will learn about the concept of risk in economics and finance
  • You will learn what the derivatives are and why they are synonymous of great fear

Course content

3 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 35m total length

  • Introduction0:37
  • Financial economy4:16
  • The problem of risk2:36
  • Derivatives contracts and risk prevention5:05
  • Derivatives2:17
  • Banks and risk management8:09

    Explore how derivative contracts, especially interest rate swaps, transfer banks' interest rate risk by swapping fixed for floating rates, enabling stable profits and large-scale risk management across markets.

Requirements

  • Interest in economics
  • Attending the course does not need any economic skill since it is presented in a clear and simple manner

Description

In this masterclass Economist Robert Merton, Nobel Prize Winner in 1997, reveals to us the mechanisms of the stock market and financial economy.

A journey into the complex world of finance and the stock market, including mortgage loans and derivatives, speculative bubbles and mathematical models; in a clear and precise presentation, the opportunities and risks of a fundamental instrument for understanding the evolution of the economy.

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Who this course is for:

  • Everyone interested in economics and who would like to learn more about the stock market and its mechanisms

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