Yale - L16. Guest Speaker Laura Cha
This is a guest lecture by Laura Cha, former vice chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. In her introductory remar…
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Yale - L17. Options Markets
After introducing the core terms and main ideas of options in the beginning of the lecture, Professor Shiller emphasizes two purposes of options, a theoretical and a behavioral pu…
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Yale - L17. The Case of Mister Balram Halwai
Professor Rae discusses Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger. The novel reveals the difficulties developing countries face dismantling entrenched inequalities. Corruption and chr…
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Yale - L18. Microfinance in South India
Professor Rae teaches the SELCO business case, about a distributed electric power generation scheme targeting rural Indians. In presenting the case, Professor Rae discusses severa…
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Yale - L18. Monetary Policy
To begin the lecture, Professor Shiller explores the origins of central banking, from the goldsmith bankers in the United Kingdom to the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, w…
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Yale - L19. Investment Banks
Professor Shiller characterizes investment banking by contrasting it to consulting, commercial banking, and securities trading. Then, in order to see the essence of investment ban…
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Yale - L19. Plight of the Bottom Billion
In a videotaped lecture, Professor Rae discusses problems with using gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure for societal wellbeing. For example, GDP fails to capture wealth ine…
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Yale - L2. Risk and Financial Crises
Professor Shiller introduces basic concepts from probability theory and embeds these concepts into the concrete context of financial crises, with examples from the financial crisi…
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Yale - L2. Thomas Malthus and Inevitable Poverty
Professor Rae shows how countries over the last two centuries have experienced improved life expectancies and increased incomes per capita. Dynamic graphical representation of thi…
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Yale - L20. Policy Targets for Capitalist Development
Professor Rae begins by briefly discussing his recent trip to Washington, where he became more closely acquainted with the health care reform bill. Professor Rae uses this example…
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Yale - L20. Professional Money Managers and their Influence
Professor Shiller argues that institutional investors are fundamentally important to our economy and our society. Following his thoughts about societal changes in a modern and cap…
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Yale - L21. Exchanges, Brokers, Dealers, Clearinghouses
As the starting point for this lecture, Professor Shiller contrasts the view of economics as the theory of the allocation of scarce resources with the view of economics as the stu…
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