Financial Economics

Thorsten Hens is a Swiss Finance Institute Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich. He studied in Bonn and Paris and previously held positions in Stanford and Bielefeld. Marc Oliver Rieger is a Professor for Banking and Finance at the University of Trier. He studied in Constance and obtained his Ph.D. from the MPI in Leipzig. Previously he held senior researcher positions in Zürich at the ETH and the University, as well as in Carnegie Mellon, Pisa, Caltech, Bielefeld and Bonn.

• Foundations: Introduction.- Decision Theory.- Financial Markets: Two-Period Model: Mean-Variance Approach.- Two-Period Model: State-Preference Approach.- Multiple-Periods Model.- Advanced Topics: Theory of the Firm.- Information Asymmetries on Financial Markets.- Time-Continuous Model. Appendices: Mathematics.- Solutions to Tests.- Index.