Intermediate Financial Theory

1. Role of Financial Markets 2. Challenges of Asset Pricing II. 3. Choices in Risky Situations 4. Measuring Risk and Risk Aversion 5. Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part 1 6. Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part 2 7. Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part 3 III. 8. The CAPM 9. Arrow-Debreu Pricing, Part I 10. The Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) 11. Arrow Debreu Pricing, Part II IV. 12. The Martingale Measure in Discrete Time, Part 1 13. The Martingale Measure in Discrete Time, Part 2 14. The APT 15. Continuous Time Finance 16. Portfolio Management in the Long Run 17. Financial Structure and Firm Valuation in Incomplete Markets V. 18. Financial Equilibrium with Differential Information

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), Université d'Aix-Marseille, Université Laval (Québec), 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). Professor Donaldson holds the teaches the Mario J. Gabelli Professorship in Finance at Columbia Business school, teaching courses in basic finance and options. He focuses on business cycles and asset pricing, with a particular emphasis on the real side of the economy's impact on equilibrium pricing of financial assets. His work has appeared in numerous professional journals, including the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

"This unique textbook presents classic models and new results in finance, skillfully couched within the more general framework of economic decision-making under uncertainty. Throughout, Danthine and Donaldson carefully balance the need for both intuition and technical detail." --Peter Ireland, Boston College