Slide Decks
Data Driven Finance I
Spring 2024

1. Time Value of Money

1. Present and Future Values
2. Monthly Rates, etc.
3. Mortgage Payments etc.
4. Inflation and Real Returns
5. Retirement Planning
6. Time-Varying Returns

2. Assets and Returns A

1. Stock Markets
2. Stock Returns
3. Annual Returns
4. Daily Returns
5. Geometric Average Returns
6. Long-Run Risk

3. Assets and Returns B

1. Leverage
2. Short Selling
3. Funds
4. Bonds
5. Bond Prices and Yields
6. Other Assets

4. Portfolios A

1. Diversification
2. More Diversification
3. Saving and Borrowing
4. Mean-Variance Frontier
5. Frontier in Pictures
6. Capital Asset Pricing Model

5. Portfolios B

1. Preferences
2. Quadratic Programming
3. Frictions and Constraints
4. More Pictures
5. Estimating Parameters
6. Stocks, Bonds, and Gold

6. Corporate Finance A

1. Cash Flows and NPV
2. Economic Value Added
3. Financial Accounting
4. Example 1
5. Example 2
6. Example 3

7. Corporate Finance B

1. Internal Rate of Return
2. Perpetuities
3. Valuing Companies
4. Weighted Average Cost of Capital
5. Debt and Taxes
6. Debt and Cost of Capital