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Important Terms and Concepts

 
   
 
 
 

Chapter 2: The Financial System

Terms

  • over-the-counter markets
  • flow of funds'moral hazard
  • adverse selection
  • principal-agent problem
  • collateralization
  • fixed-income securities
  • money market
  • capital market
  • liquidity
  • residual claim
  • limited liability
  • derivatives
  • call option
  • put option
  • forward contracts
  • mortgage rate
  • commercial loan rate
  • unit of account
  • maturity
  • default risk
  • exchange rate
  • yield curve
  • yield spread
  • capital gain
  • capital loss
  • nominal prices
  • real pirces
  • nominal interest rate
  • index-linked bonds
  • interest-rate arbitrage
  • productivity of capital goods
  • rate of return on capital
  • commercial banks
  • defined-contribution pension plan
  • defined-benefit pension plan
  • mutual funds
  • investment banks
  • market-weighted stock indexes

Concepts

  • Functions of the Financial System
    • Transferring Resources Across Time and Space
    • Managing Risk

Chapter 4: The Basics of Risk

Concepts

  • Measuring Risk
    • Standard Deviation
    • Beta
  • Diversifiable and Non-diversifiable Risk
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • Arbitrage Pricing Model
  • Default Risk

 

Chapter 7: Riskless Rates and Risk Premiums

Concepts

  • Risk-free Rate
  • Equity Risk Premium
  • Country Risk Premiums
  • Implied Equity Risk Premium
  • Bond Default Spreads
  • What is the right discount rate to use in valuing an asset?

 

Chapter 8: Estimating Risk Parameters and Costs of Financing

Concepts

  • Estimating Historical beta (regression)
  • Bottom up beta
  • Fundamental Beta
  • Cost of debt
    • Estimating Default Spreads for the debt
    • Estimating Tax Rates
  • Capitalizing Operating Leases
  • Computing Equity and Debt weights

 

Chapter 9: Measuring Earnings

Concepts

 

 

Chapter 10: Principles of Risk Management

Terms

  • hedging
  • insuring
  • diversifying
  • uncertainty
  • risk
  • risk aversion
  • risk management
  • risk exposure
  • speculators
  • hedgers

Concepts

  • The appropriateness of a risk-management decision should be judged in the light of the information available at the time the decision is made.
    For example, if you bought theft insurance for your car and your car didn't get stolen during the policy period, that doesn't make the insurance purchase a bad decision.
    Similarly, if you bought a lottery ticket, and your ticket won, that doesn't make the lottery ticket purchase a good one.
  • The riskiness of an asset or a transaction cannot be assessed in isolation, without a context.

 

Chapter 11: Estimating Growth

Concepts

 

Chapter 12: Closure in Valuation: Estimating Terminal Value

Concepts

 

 

Chapter 14: Free Cash Flow to Eauity Discount Models

Concepts

 

Chapter 18: Earnings Multiples

Concepts

 

Chapter 19: Book Value Multiples

Concepts

  • cash dividend
  • ex-dividend date
  • stock dividend

 

Chapter 20: Revenue Multiples and Ssector-Specific Multiples

Concepts

 


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