Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ONE. NO ARBITRAGE: THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF FINANCE -- TWO. BOUNDING THE PRICING KERNEL, ASSET PRICING, AND COMPLETE MARKETS -- THREE. EFFICIENT MARKETS -- FOUR. A NEOCLASSICAL LOOK AT BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: THE CLOSED-END FUND PUZZLE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Neoclassical financial models provide the foundation for our understanding of finance. This chapter introduces the main ideas of neoclassical finance in a single-period context that avoids the technical difficulties of continuous-time models, but preserves the principal intuitions of the...