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Asset Pricing John H. Cochrane June 12, 2000

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Contents<br />

Acknowledgments 2<br />

Preface 8<br />

Part I. <strong>Asset</strong> pricing theory <strong>12</strong><br />

1 Consumption-based model and overview 13<br />

1.1 Basic pricing equation 14<br />

1.2 Marginal rate of substitution/stochastic discount factor 16<br />

1.3 Prices, payoffs and notation 17<br />

1.4 Classic issues in finance 20<br />

1.5 Discount factors in continuous time 33<br />

1.6 Problems 38<br />

2 Applying the basic model 41<br />

2.1 Assumptions and applicability 41<br />

2.2 General Equilibrium 43<br />

2.3 Consumption-based model in practice 47<br />

2.4 Alternative asset pricing models: Overview 49<br />

2.5 Problems 51<br />

3 Contingent Claims Markets 54<br />

3.1 Contingent claims 54<br />

3.2 Risk neutral probabilities 55<br />

3.3 Investors again 57<br />

3.4 Risk sharing 59<br />

3.5 State diagram and price function 60<br />

4 The discount factor 64<br />

4.1 Law of one price and existence of a discount factor 64<br />

4.2 No-Arbitrage and positive discount factors 69<br />

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