Click here to go to the online class. My Asset Pricing webpage has links to the class, book, and many other useful materials.
It should be open and free to anyone, including all the quizzes, problem sets and exams.
Since it's on the Canvas system, if you are teaching at a University that uses Canvas, you should be able to integrate it with your class, assign all or part of it, and receive grades from quizzes and problem sets. Thus, you can use it as a flipped classroom, assign selected videos and quizzes in advance of a lecture.
It is also ideal for a Ph. D. program summer school for year 0 or year 1. Again, through Canvas you should be able to assign the class, in whole or in part, and get grades.
It's also well suited to self-study. If you just want to watch the videos and read the notes, they are all here via youtube links on the Asset Pricing webpage.
Huge thanks to Emily Bembeneck and Allison Kallo at the University of Chicago, Mikhail Proshletsov, and above all to Nina Karnaukh now at Ohio State. Nina masterminded all the hard work of moving the class pages and quizzes from the Coursera system to the Canvas system, and fixing innumerable glitches along the way. Thanks also to the Booth School for paying for the transition.
Update: The latest version of the class is here.
Great to know that!! This online course is a wonderful companion to the classic textbook, Asset Pricing, by you, Professor Cochrane. I benefit tremendously from watching the clearly-expressed and insightful YouTube videos as I began to learn asset pricing in the past. As a year one PhD student in finance, reading the book and watching the videos again make me well prepared for the PhD level courses (both theoretical asset pricing and empirical asset pricing) and academic research. Spreading knowledge is sowing happiness. I'm grateful to all the people who made it happen.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Professor
ReplyDeleteDr. Cochrane,
ReplyDeleteJust curious to know how often you plan to offer the class: only once,1/yr,1/semester or quarter, etc.
Thanks,
Thanks prof Cochrane. I did it on 2014/15 with You. Once in lifetime experience..
ReplyDeleteGlad to know this! I haven't yet watched all videos, but the first five videos on stochastic calculus were wonderful. Thanks to you, now I use the stochastic differential equations and Ito's lemma in my papers (ideally, I wanted you to teach us stochastic dynamic programming, but that would be too demanding).
ReplyDeleteAt the moment, lecture notes are "separate", and I hope that the next edition of your "Asset Pricing" contains separate lecture notes in one place!
John, these materials are great, but I am slightly lost with the heavy math. Could you recommend a primer to bring me up to speed re the calc? Thx.
ReplyDeleteDear Rivas,
DeleteAs we know, John's lecture notes are excellent. But if you want to know more about stochastic calculus, let me recommend "Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Time" by Fwu-Ranq Chang (2004). If you are familiar with the college algebra, you can learn a Brownian motion and stochastic dynamic programming from this book (a bit in technical/mathematical way, though).
But if you want to start with review of regular calculus, I highly recommend "Applied Intertemporal Optimization" by Klaus Walde (2011). This e-book is free of charge and available at http://www.waelde.com/pdf/AIO.pdf#search=%27Applied+INtertemporal+Optimization%27.
In my case, I first began with John's lecture notes and (nice!) videos. And I could get the intuition ("What's going on?", "What are the main points?", etc). Then I read Walde's and finally Chang's. In this way, now I can use stochastic calculus in my research.
Hope this helps,
Mizuki
Thx, Mizuki. Very helpful indeed.
DeleteModule 1 Homework 1 [practice]: Horizon Effects in Returns:
ReplyDeleteOn canvas.net the formatting is incorrect. It is showing urls back to canvas.uchicago.edu but it is not formatting correctly. I have tried with edge, firefox and chrome.
Thanks for reporting the bug! Fixed now!
DeleteHi Nina
DeleteI created a test.html file with html and body statements. I can not show my example because this input box objects to it but in essence your server is missing a body statement.
Regards Conwyn
The canvas.net is not correctly formatting the links back to canvas.uchicago.edu
ReplyDeleteThanks. All should look ok now.
DeleteHi Nina
DeleteIt is still not fixed on the quiz.
Regards Conwyn
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The quiz looks fine as soon as you open it fresh. If you have already attempted the quiz earlier (before it was fixed), the best is to access the course from a new profile.
DeleteHi Nina
DeleteI am proceeding through the course slightly slower than a snail (almost finished module 3). Does the course continue to be available into the immediate future (approximately 500 snail units). Are there any plans to produce a transcript of what John delivers.
Regards Conwyn
Any idea on coursera free courses ?
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ReplyDeleteI just cannot find this course on canvas.net. Is this course still available for free?
ReplyDeleteI am not able to find it either. Did canvas remove it or make it limited to some users?
DeleteMaybe we should make a email to Canvas to fix it.
DeleteWas the course recently removed? I can't seem to find it on canvas anymore. Is there anywhere else we can access the test materials. I know the videos are still available. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSo am I.The test materials are important to a complete study process.Maybe we need a email to Canvas .
DeleteI cannot find the course in Canvas either.Does the course move into another platform? And does the course still provide a certificatio？I am going to apply a finance program. A certificate for this famous course may improve the probability. Thx.
ReplyDeleteThis course‘s video is avialable. But the test material cannot be found. Can this be uploaded(Canvas can’t be accessed)in some platform? And does the certificate still provide to whom take the course?
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