DATE(DAY)

TOPIC

NOTE

READING

ASSIGNMENT

1/14 (M)

Introduction

The New Yorker: A Dirty Business

1/16 (W)

Part I: Financial Institutions

L1

RWJ Chapter 1

1/18 (F)

Commercial Banking

L2

Scanned Materials #1

1/21 (M)

Martin Luther King Day

No Class

1/23 (W)

Banks as Financial Intermediaries

Same as above

1/25 (F)

Commercial and Central Banks

L3

Scanned Materials #2

PS 1

1/28 (M)

Monetary Policy in the U.S.

L4

Same as above

1/30 (W)

Monetary Policy

Same as above

2/1 (F)

Stock Trading Mechanism

L5

Scanned Materials #3

2/4 (M)

Short Sales

L6

 Same as above

2/6 (W)

Markets and Market Participants

L7

Scanned Materials #4; RWJ Ch 9.5

PS 2

2/8 (F)

Market Indices

L8

RWJ 20.1~20.3

2/11 (M)

Investment Banking and Underwriting

L9

RWJ 20.1~20.3

2/13 (W)

Money Managers - Advisors and Mutual Funds

L10

Scanned Materials #5; #6

2/15(F)

Review

PS 3

2/18 (M)

Midterm 1

2/20 (W)

Money Managers - ETFs

Same as above

2/22 (F)

Money Managers - Pension and Alternative Investments

L11

Scanned Materials #7

2/25 (M)

Part II: Finance Theory: Time Value of Money

L12

RWJ Ch 4

2/27 (W)

Loan Amortization and APR

L13

RWJ Ch 4

3/1 (F)

Bonds as Securities

L14

RWJ Ch 8.1~8.3

PS 4

 Spring Break

No Class

3/11 (M)

More Bond Basics

L15

Same as Above

3/13 (W)

Book Report

Liar's Poker

3/15 (F)

Risk in Bond Investments

L16

RWJ Ch 8.4~8.5

3/18 (M)

More Bonds

Same as Above

PS 5

3/20 (W)

More Bonds

Same as Above

3/22 (F)

More Bonds

Same as Above

3/25 (M)

Bond Derivatives

L17

3/27 (W)

Review

PS 6

3/29 (F)

Midterm 2

4/1 (M)

Yield Curve

L18

RWJ Ch 8.5

4/3 (W)

Introduction to Stock Valuation

L20

RWJ Ch 9.1~9.3

4/5 (F)

Intrinsic Value and DDM

L21

Same as Above

4/8 (M)

Return as a Random Variable

L22

RWJ Ch 10

4/10 (W)

Risk and Return

L23

Same as Above

4/12 (F)

Cancelled

No Class

4/15 (M)

Capital Asset Pricing Model

L24

RWJ Ch 11.1~3; 11.6; 11.9

4/17 (W)

Applications of CAPM

Same as Above

4/19 (F)

Efficient Market Hypothesis

L25

RWJ Ch 14.2~4

PS 7

4/22 (M)

Flunk Day

4/24 (W)

Efficient Market Hypothesis

Same as Above 

4/26 (F)

Behavioral Finance

L26

RWJ Ch 14.5~7 

Evaluation

4/29 (M)

Behavioral Finance

5/1 (W)

Part III: Fascinating Finance and Review

L27 

PS 8

Final Exam

        5/4 8am Session 01; 5/7 11am Session 02