We are now closing on Week 8 of the term, and things have stabilised enough in the module, and in my thinking about the module, to start laying out a roadmap for the type of material you’ll see for the next 6 weeks, and the type of stuff you’ll be evaluated upon. There are 10 more lectures to think about, because week 11 is a reading week. So, here it is, lecture by lecture, and reading by reading. I've an extra lecture in there to make up for a missed one.

In tutorials, we'll be spending time in the Trading Simulation floor from next week, and using this resource well will become part of your second problem set. So, here's the roadmap:

(today) Lecture 12: Domestic and International Bond Markets. Reading: Pilbeam, cht. 12

Lecture 13: Stabilistation & Growth Pacts, the ECB, and Ireland. Reading: Cournot Institute Working Paper by Solow et al.

Lecture 14: Default Probabilities and Defunct States: Ireland and Iceland. Reading: Buiter & Sibert, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/2498

Lecture 15: Financial Fragility in Ireland, Reading: Kinsella, Financial Fragility in Ireland,2009.

Lecture 16: The European Central Bank & Investor Behaviour. Reading: Buiter, W: Why the United Kingdom Should Join the Eurozone

Lecture 17: The Credit Default Swap Market, the Subprime Crisis, and Ireland, 2008-2009. Reading: Shiller, R, The Subprime Solution, chapters 2 and 3.

Lecture 18: Behavioural Finance 1: CAPM and Reality. Reading: course notes

Lecture 19: Behavioural Finance 2: Biases and Trading. Reading: course notes

Lecture 20: Behavioural Finance 3: The Efficient and Adaptive Markets Hypotheses. Reading: Lo (2004)

Lecture 21: Options & Option Pricing, Reading: Pilbeam, Cht 15, and course notes

Lecture 22: Options Pricing 2: Reading, Taleb & Huag.

Lecture 23: Recap lecture. Readings: All of them 🙂