Assessment Materials in Financial Economics

YouTube playlist of 56 short videos from an open online course. Each takes the form of a narrated slide show. Among the many topics are exchange rates, the Eurozone and European Central Bank, Optimum Currency Areas, the Gold Standard, Crises and Responses to them, and Currency Manipulation. On the MRUniversity site the videos come with download options, self-test questions and a discussion facility.

PDF Lecture slides, readings and a final exam from a four-week mini-course delivered at MIT in January 2016. The course introduces the economic theory of financial crises, focusing on "amplification mechanisms that exacerbate crises, such as leverage, fire sales, bank runs, interconnections, and complexity. It also analyzes the different perspectives on the origins of crises, such as mistaken beliefs and moral hazard, and discusses the optimal regulation of the financial system."

Assignment sheets, with separate answer sheets, on the topics of Efficient Markets, Capital Budgeting, Portfolio Theory, CAPM, Money Demand, and IS-LM.