Table of Contents

PART I : INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: On the Role of Financial Markets and Institutions
Chapter 2: The Challenges of Asset Pricing: A Roadmap
PART II: THE DEMAND FOR FINANCIAL ASSETS
Chapter 3: Making Choices in Risky Situations
Chapter 4: Measuring Risk and Risk Aversion
Chapter 5: Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part I
Chapter 6: Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part II: Modern Portfolio Theory
PART III: EQUILIBRIUM PRICING
Chapter 7: The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Another View about Risk
Chapter 8: Arrow-Debreu Pricing I
Chapter 9: The Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM)
PART IV: ARBITRAGE PRICING
Chapter 10: Arrow-Debreu Pricing II: the Arbitrage Perspective
Chapter 11: The Martingale Measure : Part I
Chapter 12: The Martingale Measure : Part II
Chapter 13: The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)
PART V: EXTENSIONS
Chapter 14: Portfolio Management in the long run
Chapter 15: Financial Structure and Firm Valuation in Incomplete Markets
Chapter 16: Financial Equilibrium with Differential Information
EXERCISES

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Danthine is professor of economics and finance at the University of Lausanne Switzerland), director of the International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering Lausanne & Geneva) and CEPR Research Fellow. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University and a M.S. in Economics from the University of Louvain, Professor DanthineI previously taught at at Columbia University and held visiting appointments at CUNY Graduate Center, University of Southern California (Los Angeles), Universite d'Aix-Marseille, Universite Laval (Quebec), as well as Universities of Toulon and Dijon. He is an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics and Finance Research Letters; Chairman of the Scientific Council of the TCIP (Training Center for Investment Professionals); member of the Council of the European Economic Association, of the Scientific Councils of CEPREMAP (Paris), CREST (Paris), CREI (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) as well as the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (Economics Commission - Belgium). He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the ICMB (Geneva). He was formerly Vice-Rector of the University of Lausanne, chairman of its Departement d'Econometrie et d'Economie Politique (DEEP) and director of its Institute for Banking and Financial Management, member of the Executive Committee of CEPR (Center for Economic Policy research - London), of the CEPS Macroeconomic Policy Group (Brussels), of the Scientific Council of the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets. He was also an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review, of the Journal of Empirical Finance and of the Revue Finance. His publications have appeared in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Public Economics, the European Economic Review, and many other journals.

Reviews

"This is an excellent book that introduces financial asset pricing theory as a natural extension of microeconomic and general equilibrium theory. The exposition of classic and recent results is clear, thorough and accessible to any economist or graduate student who has a good grounding in microeconomic theory. Having mastered this material the reader is well equipped to tackle the many variations of asset pricing models in the literature." --Frank Milne, Queen’s University, Professor of Economics and Finance

"This book is ideally suited to students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the basic concepts of financial economics beyond those presented in a typical MBA program without having to deal with unnecessary mathematical details. The exposition is superb and enriching of intuition. The book, written by two of the professions leading experts, is unique." --Rajnish Mehra, Professor of Finance, University of California, Santa Barbara