Chapter 1 Preliminaries -- Chapter 2 Risk and Expected Utility -- Chapter 3 Market Pricing and Market E ciency -- Chapter 4 Modern Portfolio Theory -- Chapter 5 Asset Pricing -- Chapter 6 Introduction to Derivatives -- Chapter 7 Arbitrage and Model-free Pricing Methods- Chapter 8 Modelling,...

In recent years, especially in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, the performance of South Asia capital markets has attracted the attention of the researchers and investors across the globe. The resilient shown provides the impetus to examine the efficient market hypothesis in these...

In this paper, I use high-frequency financial market estimates to identify the monetary policy shock in a non-recursive 133 variable FAVAR. All restrictions are imposed exclusively on impact, and only on financial market variables. Using the economy's underlying factor structure as the link...