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Dynamic Hedging and Average Life in Financial Theory - Lecture 21

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Overview

Explore dynamic hedging and average life concepts in this comprehensive financial theory lecture. Review the intuition behind dynamic hedging and understand why marking to market is crucial for managing numerous potential scenarios over time. Discover how traders use the average life of a bond to determine appropriate hedges against interest rate movements. Delve into topics such as dynamic hedging as marking-to-market, prepayment models in the market, and measuring a bond's average life. Gain valuable insights into financial theory and its practical applications in this 1-hour 14-minute lecture from Yale University's ECON 251 course.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. Review of Dynamic Hedging
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- Chapter 2. Dynamic Hedging as Marking-to-Market
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- Chapter 3. Dynamic Hedging and Prepayment Models in the Market
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- Chapter 4. Appropriate Hedges against Interest Rate Movements
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- Chapter 5. Measuring the Average Life of a Bond
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