Investments
Lecture 1: Background
Philip H. DybvigWashington University in Saint Louis
- Introduction
- The players
- The assets
- Security returns
- In-line exercise: security returns
- Adjusting for inflation: real returns
- In-line exercise: real returns
- Real Rates of Returns: Discussion
- Measures of Mean Return
- Volatility of returns
- In-line exercise: mean return and volatility
- Properties of stock returns
- Stock return anomalies
- International stocks
- Properties of Treasury returns
- Corporate bonds
- International debt
- Some tax issues
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