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Finance Theory I

Subjects: Economics · Finance · Management

Art: Gaston, John, (John Gaston merchant ledger) - DPLA -…, 1773 · Public domain

Instructor
Prof. Andrew Lo
Term
Fall 2008
Level
Graduate
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29 videos · 4 exams · 2 solutions · 1 reading · 51 other files · 19 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.401 Finance Theory I, Fall 2008, Prof. Andrew Lo — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own units, each a lecture sequence in MIT's listing order; no single course-wide order across units is claimed. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: Principles of Corporate Finance

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  1. Video Lectures and Slides28 activities · lecture sequence, in MIT's listing order

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Syllabus

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8 files

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Video Lectures and Slides

12 files in this section

Introduction and Course Overview

Present Value Relations

Fixed-Income Securities

Equities

Forward and Futures Contracts

Options

Risk and Return

Portfolio Theory

The CAPM and APT

Capital Budgeting

Efficient Markets

Course Summary

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29 video transcripts

MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Andrew Lo, 15.401 Finance Theory I, Fall 2008.

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