This course will focus on the financial theory of asset pricing. While this course will be broad in scope and will cover many different topics relating to finance, a particular emphasis will be placed on topics related to financial markets. The primary topics covered in the class include present value, asset valuation, expected utility, portfolio selection, and the trade-off between risk and return.

12 Credits
Prerequisites: 10.004 Advanced Math II, 40.001 Probability or 01.001 Probability and Statistics

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