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by Andrea Beltratti (Author)
The book serves as an educational resource for financial markets and investment courses, targeted at students with foundational knowledge in economics and statistics. Its goal is to provide a hands-on approach to various subjects while upholding the academic integrity of rigorous, literature-based analysis. Positioned between introductory and intermediate levels, the book's content aims to be practical. It begins with fundamental concepts of asset pricing and risk premiums and extends to employ these principles in areas such as portfolio optimization, stock valuation, private assets, and sustainability. Therefore, professionals may find the book useful, and certain chapters could be effectively integrated into executive education programs.
Author Biography
Andrea Beltratti is a Full Professor at the Department of Finance at Bocconi University. His research activities focus on four main areas: stock markets, banks, risk, and corporate governance. He has authored several articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Monetary Economics and Oxford Economic Papers, among others. In the early 1990s, he co-authored two papers with Roberto J. Shiller, the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences.
