Course description: This course introduces the basic ideas of asset pricing in a finite-state one-period setting. These
ideas hold true also for the corresponding multi-period and continuous-time models. The aim is to characterize security
prices in terms of “state prices,” one for each state of the world, obtained by assuming the absence of arbitrage, solving
an optimal portfolio choice of a given agent, or finally Pareto optimality in an equilibrium with complete markets. The
course presents that states are connected with “beta” model for excess expected returns, a special case of which is the
well-known Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
Course calendar:
Overview of asset pricing theory and the simple ideas to price assets(概述,资产定价的基本思想). (2 Credit Hours)
Security market model. Single period setting for a security market and state pricing(证券市场模型,单周期模型和状态
定价). (2 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Risk-neutral probabilities and the risk-neutral pricing(风险中性概率与风险中性定价). (2 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Utility function, the state prices by solving an agent’s optimizatiopn problem(效用函数,基于单人优化计算状态价格).
(2 Credit Hours)
Expected utility cases(期望效用情形). (2 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Security market equilibrium and examples(证券市场均衡及例子). (2 Credit Hours)
Pareto optimality and complete markets(帕累托最优性与完备市场). (4 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Several standard results from microeconomics and welfare economics(微观经济学和福利经济学的若干基本定理). (4
Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Equilibrium asset pricing theory(均衡资产定价理论). (4 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
State-price Beta model(状态价格贝塔模型). (2 Credit Hours)
Capital asset pricing model(CAPM,资本资产定价模型). (4 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)
Review(复习). (2 Credit Hours)
Exercises. (2 Credit Hours)