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ASSET PRICING AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE
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ASSET PRICING AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE
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Academic year 2024/2025
- Course ID
- ECO0262
- Teacher
- Giovanna Nicodano (Lecturer)
- Degree course
- Finance
Insurance and Statistics - Year
- 1st year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Distinctive
- Credits/Recognition
- 9
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/01 - economics
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Written
- Prerequisites
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1. Intermediate knowledge of microeconomics, statistics, finance is very useful, as we cover advanced material.
2. Erasmus students without such background may not want to chose this course, because time for catching up is very short.
3. Institutional arrangements of financial markets are taken for granted. They are covered in ch. 1-4 of the Bodie Kane Marcus textbook.
4. Professor Alberto Plazzi, visiting from USI Lugano, will teach a module in Empirical Asset Pricing showing Matlab codes. It is straightforward to turn from Matlab to Python in case you do not master Matlab. - Propedeutic for
- Advanced Asset Pricing (2 year, 6 CFU)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
Provide concepts and methods underlyingasset pricing and investments.
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Results of learning outcomes
Understanding risks, their interactions, their value and their management through portfolio choice.- Oggetto:
Program
This course presents methods for portfolio choice and asset pricing.
FIRST PART: Portfolio Choice (Giovanna Nicodano).
Mean Variance analysis.
Households' portfolio choice.
Multiperiod portfolio choice.
SECOND PART: Asset Pricing (Giovanna Nicodano).
Stochastic Discount Factor.
Consumption-capm, linear pricing, generalized MVF.
Contingent claim pricing.
Dividend Discount Model and Market Efficiency.
Optimal Risk Sharing.
Other Topics from the list below if time allows
- illiquidity, asymmetric information and microstructure
- estimation risk
- alternatives: portfolio choice with non Gaussian returns
- survivorship bias and sample prices
THIRD PART:Return Predictability (Alberto Plazzi)
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Course delivery
The course is based on lectures and at least as many hours of at‐home reading and solving exercises with other students.The teaching methods will be mixed, with some web presentations and some guest lectures by market professionals.Q&A in the classroom is very welcome.Students may also attend events at Collegio Carlo Alberto. Please check:https://www.carloalberto.org/cca-finance/This is an elective activity.- Oggetto:
Learning assessment methods
Written exam:
there will be three composite questions or exercises, each on a different topic, with limited space for precise answers to the questions and explanations/proofs.
See the sample exam on Moodle. Questions will concern all parts of the program, including the part taught by Professor Plazzi.
20'-30' per question. 10 points each.
Questions may refer to discussion in the classroom that may not be reflected in the material.
The maximum number of tests (3) that each student can sit for during the
academic year is established by Article 21, Comma 7 of the ESOMAS Department's
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Support activities
Office Hours (in presence or webex): send an email.
Lecture notes on advanced topics and other materials are distributed through the Moodle forum.
Please register online before the beginning of the course, on Moodle, adding a passport-like picture of yourself. Ensure you select the academic year 2024-2025.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Investments
- Year of publication:
- 2021
- Publisher:
- Mc Graw
- Author:
- Bodie Z., Kane A., Marcus A.J.
- ISBN
- Chapters:
- 5-10, 11, 24. Also ch. 1-4 for students without knowledge of market arrangements and institutions
- Notes:
- If at least 10 students request this service, Mc Graw will create a pdf for them with the required chapters only.,
- Required:
- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Financial Decisions and Markets
- Year of publication:
- 2017
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Author:
- John Y. Campbell
- ISBN
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- Chapters:
- 2,3,4, 5.1-5.3, 9.1-9.2,10
- Required:
- Yes
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- Asset Pricing
- Year of publication:
- 2005
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Author:
- John Cochrane
- ISBN
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- Chapters:
- 1,2,3,4,5
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- No
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The complete reading list will be distributed on Moodle.
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Notes
The program of the course "Additional IT Training" covers intermediate material that I used to teach in this class to even out differences in students' backgrounds.
https://www.finance-insurance.unito.it/do/corsi.pl/Show?_id=qitd
Some students may however ask to take a test limited to intermediate knowledge. Chapters in Bodie Kane Markus (1-10, 11, 24) provide such intermediate background.
This option will be available in June and July. With this option, you will get a maximum grade of 24/30. There will be 24 multiple choice questions drawn out of the Bodie Kane Marcus textbook and 24 minutes for answering. 18 right answers will deliver 18/30, 24 right answers will deliver 24/30.
You will anyway need to attend the course and pass a qualifying exam limited to the Visiting Professor part (PASS/FAIL). In case you were interested, please send me an email before May 15th. You may always revert to the full exam if you change your mind.
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Courses that borrow this teaching
- Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice (INT0745)Corso di laurea magistrale Interateneo in Fisica dei sistemi complessi
- Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice (INT0745)
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