Financial Markets (ECON 252) Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which were created just after the Great Depression, are intended to help prevent the manipulation of investors’ psychological foibles and maintain trust in the markets so that a broad spectrum of investors will continue to participate. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

From the Rachel Maddow Show March 24, 2009.

From Wall Street to Main Street, Americans are reeling from the current financial crisis. Hear a panel of Stanford experts discuss perspectives on the crisis and what is to come. Recorded October 10, 2008. Panelists: John Shoven (Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), Anne Casscells (CIO, Aetos Capital), Darrell Duffie (Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business) , Dennis Lockhart (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), John Taylor …