Handbooks and reading lists in Financial Economics

PDF Lecture slides, readings and a final exam from a four-week mini-course delivered at MIT in January 2016. The course introduces the economic theory of financial crises, focusing on "amplification mechanisms that exacerbate crises, such as leverage, fire sales, bank runs, interconnections, and complexity. It also analyzes the different perspectives on the origins of crises, such as mistaken beliefs and moral hazard, and discusses the optimal regulation of the financial system."

Part of the Open Yale site, this course from 2009 examines "the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy", presenting financial equilibrium as an extension of economic equilibrium.  It includes 26 full-length lectures (available through YouTube, iTunes or individual download with transcripts) as well as a reading list.