MIT 14.772 Development Economics: Macroeconomics, Spring 2013 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/14-772S13 Instructor: Robert Townsend Prof. Robert Townsend discusses research methods and concepts about studying risk and return in village households. Chapters 0:00:00 Title slates 0:00:27 Lecture introduction 0:03:25 Introduction to Samphantharak and Townsend (2013) 0:04:50 Intuition for compensating for risk 0:06:05 Findings related to risk and rates of return 0:37:13 Comparison with Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) 1:13:50 Introduction to Calvet, Campbell, and Sodini (2007) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu/