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Informationen zum Autor Frank Milne has taught at the University of Rochester, Australian National University, and Australian Graduate School of Management, and is currently Bank of Montreal Professor of Economics and Finance at Queen's University, Canada. He has published extensively in academic economics and finance journals. Klappentext Finance Theory and Asset Pricing provides a concise guide to financial asset pricing theory for economists. Assuming a basic knowledge of graduate microeconomic theory, it explores the fundamental ideas that underlie competitive financial asset pricing models with symmetric information. Using finite dimensional techniques, this book avoids sophisticated mathematics and exploits economic theory to clarify the essential structure of recent research in asset pricing. In particular, it explores arbitrage pricing models with and without diversification, Martingale pricing methods and representative agent pricing models; discusses these ideas in two-date and multi-date models; and provides a range of examples from the literature. This second edition includes a new section dealing with more advanced multi-period models. In particular it considers discrete factor structure models that mimic recent continuous time models of interest rates, money, and nominal rates and exchange rates. Additional sections sketch extensions to real options and transaction costs.A concise guide to asset pricing, this text assumes a knowledge of graduate level microeconomics. It explores the fundamental ideas underlying competitive financial asset pricing models with synthetic information. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: A Brief History of Finance Theory Part I: The One Period Model 2: Two Date Models: Complete Markets 3: Incomplete Markets with Production 4: Arbitrage and Asset Pricing: Induced Preference Approach 5: Martingale Pricing Methods 6: Representative Consumers 7: Diversification and Asset Pricing Part II: The Basic Multiperiod Model 8: Multiperiod Asset Pricing: Complete Markets 9: General Asset Pricing in Complete Markets 10: Multiperiod Asset Pricing: Incomplete Asset Markets Part III: The General Multiperiod Model 11: The General Model and Asset Price Characterization 12: Arbitrage and Discounting Formulae 13: Pareto Optimality 14: Orthonormal Bases, Factor Pricing, and Multi-Beta Asset Pricing 15: Idiosyncrasies that are Irrelevant for Security Pricing 16: Discrete Stochastic Integrals and Multiperiod Factor Pricing 17: Fiat Money as an Asset, Nominal Assets, and International Finance 18: Extensions to the Basic Model ...