An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Emphasis on financially-savvy leadership skills. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the real-world functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries. The ultimate goal of this course is using such industries effectively and towards a better society.
Financial Markets
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Financial Markets
Instructor: Robert Shiller
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- Category: Equities
- Category: Portfolio Risk
- Category: Financial Industry Regulatory Authorities
- Category: Risk Management
- Category: Behavioral Economics
- Category: Financial Management
- Category: Portfolio Management
- Category: Financial Services
- Category: Banking
- Category: Financial Systems
- Category: Financial Regulations
- Category: Investment Banking
- Category: Financial Market
- Category: Finance
- Category: Securities (Finance)
- Category: Capital Markets
- Category: Investments
- Category: Governance
- Category: Bank Regulations
- Category: Financial Regulation
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(11,102 ratings)Robert Shiller
Yale University
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LP
Reviewed on Mar 9, 2025
The lectures were real world example based and very insightful, this course proved to be extremely useful as it equipped me with a set of diverse financial tools to use in a multitude of scenarios.
BK
Reviewed on Oct 25, 2021
This course is so useful to know about finance in depth it gives more examples about the finance . It help to make more decision in finance market. It also motivate students to attract towards finance
AA
Reviewed on Jun 15, 2020
Through this course, I have learned not only technical financial terms but much deeper meaning of the financial markets which I always wanted to understand. I feel very lucky that I took this course.
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