Microfoundations of financial economics

An introduction to general equilibrium asset pricing

Yvan Lengwiler - Collection Princeton series in finance

284 pages, parution le 01/06/2004

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This textbook takes the reader from the level of microeconomics principles through to modern asset pricing theory. Yvan Lengwiler elegantly links together issues that have in the past been the territory of general economic theorists on the one hand, and financial economists on the other.

In a sequence of carefully explained steps, the reader learns how the first welfare theorem is used in asset pricing theory. The book then moves on to explore Radner economies and von Neumann-Morgenstern decision theory, and this section culminates in Wilson's mutuality principle and the consumption-based CAPM. This is then put into a dynamic setting, and term structure models are introduced. The empirical shortcomings of the standard asset pricing models are extensively discussed, as is research from the last twenty years aimed at bringing theory in line with reality. The reader is brought up to date on the latest areas of concern, such as habit formation, the consequences of heterogeneity, demographic effects, changing tax regimes, market frictions, and the implications of prospect theory for asset pricing.

Aimed at masters or Ph.D. students specializing in financial economics, the book can also be used as a supplementary text for students of macroeconomics at this advanced level and will be of interest to finance professionals with a background in economics and mathematics. It includes problems (with solutions), and an accompanying website provides supporting material for lecturers.

Sommaire

Contingent claim economy
Asset economy
Risky decisions
Staticfinance economy
Dynamicfinance economy
Empirics and the puzzles
Adapting the theory

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Yvan Lengwiler
Collection	Princeton series in finance
Parution	01/06/2004
Nb. de pages	284
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	581g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691113159
ISBN13	978-0-691-11315-9