Financial Markets (ECON 252)

Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance and each key topic. Lecture topics will include: behavioral finance, financial technology, financial instruments, commercial banking, investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real estate, regulation, monetary policy, and democratization of finance.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

Duration : 1:14:4

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This is the latest television commercial to create awareness and promote usage of net banking services from India’s largest Bank-State Bank of India. The Creative Rationale is very simple: More and More people are now “Online”…so forget “Inline” (refering to Queue) banking and migrate to “Online Banking”…the most convenient, easy and secure mode of banking.

Duration : 0:0:51

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Having difficulty understanding the 2008 US Financial Crisis? Here’s a short animated video that explains – visually!

Duration : 0:4:9

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