Robert Merton – The Stock Market

In this masterclass Economist Robert Merton, Nobel Prize Winner in 1997, reveals to us the mechanisms of the stock market and financial economy.

A journey into the complex world of finance and the stock market, including mortgage loans and derivatives, speculative bubbles and mathematical models; in a clear and precise presentation, the opportunities and risks of a fundamental instrument for understanding the evolution of the economy.

From literature to economics, art to philosophy, EdooTv gives voice to the world’s leading experts, describing and sharing ideas and knowledge that are essential for all of us.

What You’ll Learn In The Stock Market?

• 18 masterclasses and 1 hour and more of content
• You will learn about the concept of risk in economics and finance
• You will learn what the derivatives are and why they are synonymous of great fear

Who The Stock Market is for?

• Everyone interested in economics and who would like to learn more about the stock market and its mechanisms

About Instructor

Robert Merton is an American economist who won the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Merton, along with Fisher Black and Myron Scholes, developed a method of determining the value of options, referred to as the Black-Scholes model.

Merton also developed an intertemporal capital asset pricing model (CAPM) based on William Sharpe’s capital asset pricing model. CAPM is a way of calculating anticipated investment returns based on the level of risk.

More courses from the same author: Robert Merton