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Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory
Kerry Back
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Description for Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory
This book covers the classical results on single-period, discrete-time, and continuous-time models of portfolio choice and asset pricing. It also treats asymmetric information, production models, various proposed explanations for the equity premium puzzle, and topics important for behavioral finance. Series: Financial Management Association Survey & Synthesis Series. Num Pages: 504 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 830.
This book is intended as a textbook for Ph.D. students in finance and as a reference book for academics. It is written at an introductory level but includes detailed proofs and calculations as section appendices. It covers the classical results on single-period, discrete-time, and continuous-time models. It also treats various proposed explanations for the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles: persistent heterogeneous idiosyncratic risks, internal habits, external habits, and recursive utility. Most of the book assumes rational behavior, but two topics important for behavioral finance are covered: heterogeneous beliefs and non-expected-utility preferences. There are also chapters on asymmetric information and ... Read more
This book is intended as a textbook for Ph.D. students in finance and as a reference book for academics. It is written at an introductory level but includes detailed proofs and calculations as section appendices. It covers the classical results on single-period, discrete-time, and continuous-time models. It also treats various proposed explanations for the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles: persistent heterogeneous idiosyncratic risks, internal habits, external habits, and recursive utility. Most of the book assumes rational behavior, but two topics important for behavioral finance are covered: heterogeneous beliefs and non-expected-utility preferences. There are also chapters on asymmetric information and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
Financial Management Association Survey & Synthesis Series
Number of Pages
504
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195380613
SKU
V9780195380613
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About Kerry Back
Kerry Back is a co-editor of Finance & Stochastics, an associate editor of the Journal of Finance, and a former editor of the Review of Financial Studies. He has received various research and teaching awards, including a Batterymarch Fellowship, and is the author of A Course in Derivative Securities: Introduction to Theory and Computation (Springer) as well as numerous journal ... Read more
Reviews for Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory
Kerry Back has created a masterful introduction to asset pricing and portfolio choice. It is easy to foresee this text becoming a new standard in finance PhD courses as well as a valued reference for seasoned finance scholars everywhere. The coverage of topics is comprehensive, starting in a single-period setting and then moving naturally to dynamic models in both discrete ... Read more