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During my recent chats with some investors, I was questioned by most of them about my thoughts on the "stock market bubble". I realized that there are whispers in the air about the stock market being a bubble currently.

The stock markets have reached record levels and do not show much lethargy yet. Some articles justified these new heights of the stock markets by investors estimation of forwarding PEG.

T hese notes would be beneficial to individuals to understand the very basics of the Brownian Motion, which eventually would aid in understanding stochastic calculus. The notes have been made from the lectures of profbillbyrne.

  Notes have been made on the basis of lecture BEM1105X - Caltech. Course playlist can be found here

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS aids us to gain an understanding of the theory underlying optimal portfolio construction, the different ways portfolios are actually built in practice and how to measure and manage the risk of portfolios.

A derivative instrument is a contract which specifies the conditions under which a transaction will take place in the future. The price of the derivative depends on the price of another asset called as the underlying asset.

These financial instruments are not just interesting for traders and to deepen pockets but even from economics and research point of view, these instruments are fascinating.

 As we know, the share price of a firm, at least theoretically, are the discounted values of expected future cash flows. This method to value stock price, as discussed in the article, understanding financial markets, is called the discounted cash flow method.

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS dive into the concepts of rationality and irrationality and understand how they impact our investment decisions and what the consequences can be at the market level.

Academicians from the University of Geneva and professionals from UBS tells what the main financial markets and their characteristics are and how they are linked to the economy. We start by seeing how the price of stocks and bonds are computed and why they move.

 Click here to access the file containing my learnings of GFC based on Yale's course.

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Southeast Asian experience of the 1970s and 1980s consisted of high growth based on export  competitiveness, low debt combined with low and stable inflation. Most of the East Asian  countries were running budget surpluses.

The work examines whether it is possible to accurately forecast dividend yield using aggregate stock returns in S&P500,

-  by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   Money market funds (MMMFs) are investment companies that sell shares and invest the proceeds in short-term assets. MMMFs historically has almost always maintained stable 1 dollar share prices, so they act very much like a bank.

-  Based on  Lecture (4) by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   This lecture discusses monetary policy responses to the recession, the sluggish recovery, post-crisis changes in financial regulation, and implications of the crisis for central bank practice.

-  Based on  Lecture (3) by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   This lecture describes the financial crisis, its implications and the policy responses by the federal reserve. 

-  Based on  Lecture (2) by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   This lecture explains the development of central banking after world war 2, focusing on the origins of the recent financial crisis (2008-09).

-  Based on  Lecture (1) by  Ben Bernanke in  G eorge Washington University   This lecture explains what central banks do, the origin of central banking in the United States, and the experience of the Fed during the Great Depression.