ECON 264A

General Equilibrium and Finance

Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed for graduate students. Introduction to mathematical finance from general equilibrium viewpoint. CAPM and static equilibrium models. Intertemporal models in discrete and continuous time. Spanning, option prices, and derivatives. Martingales, random walks, and market efficiency.

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Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

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ECON 264A

ECON 264BFundamentals and Bubbles in Asset Prices
ECON 264CAsset Prices, Forecasting, and Learning
ECON 264DEconometrics of Asset Prices

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.