FINC331-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Financial Economics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

The economics of finance, with applications to asset valuation, corporate finance, and portfolio management.

This course covers the economics of financial decisions and markets. How do individuals and firms make investment decisions? How are future cash flow streams (such as those provided by financial securities) priced? Requirements include familiarity with intermediate microeconomics, multivariate calculus, algebra (including matrix algebra) and probability theory.

Learning Outcomes

  • LEARNING OUTCOMES:  At the end of this course, a successful student will be able to:
  • Understand what the efficient market hypothesis does and doesn’t say, and its implications  for asset price behaviour;
  • Understand modern portfolio theory and its implications for investment planning;
  • Understand the no-arbitrage principle and its implications for asset pricing;
  • Be able to relate financial economics theory to actual financial issues and events;
  • Be adequately prepared for postgraduate study in finance and economics.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

Course Administrator

Glenn Boyle

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 15%
Final Exam 60%
Class participation 10%
Test 05 Apr 2016 15%

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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