Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory

Kerry Back

Aug 2010 · Oxford University Press

About this ebook

In Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E. Back at last offers what is at once a welcoming introduction to and a comprehensive overview of asset pricing. Useful as a textbook for graduate students in finance, with extensive exercises and a solutions manual available for professors, the book will also serve as an essential reference for scholars and professionals, as it includes detailed proofs and calculations as section appendices. Topics covered include the classical results on single-period, discrete-time, and continuous-time models, as well as various proposed explanations for the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles and chapters on heterogeneous beliefs, asymmetric information, non-expected utility preferences, and production models. The book includes numerous exercises designed to provide practice with the concepts and to introduce additional results. Each chapter concludes with a notes and references section that supplies pathways to additional developments in the field.

About the author

Kerry E. Back is J. Howard Creekmore Professor of Finance at the Jones School of Business at Rice University, and is the author of A Course in Derivative Securities: Introduction to Theory and Computation, as well as numerous journal articles in finance, economics, and mathematics.