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Aims: To provide students with the analytical skills needed to assess the main determinants of the prices and returns of any asset or investment. By the end of the module, you will be able to see how finance fits within economics and use your general economic knowledge applied to real life investment decisions. It should serve as a solid base for graduate studies in the subject or for pursuing a career in finance.
Suitable for: Final year BSc (Econ) Economics (L100, L101 and L102) students; BSc Economics and Geography (UBEECOAGEO05), BA Philosophy and Economics (UBAPHIAECO09), BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics PPE (UBSPPESING05) and BA European Social and Political Studies (UBABAESPSTU05) students. Students from other degree programmes can also take the module if they meet the prerequisite requirements.
Prerequisites: ECON0013: Microeconomics or a suitable alternative that meets the requirements in the 鈥淎ssumed Knowledge鈥� section. Students are encouraged to take the Level 5 module ECON0048: Economics of Finance, in their second year.
Assumed knowledge: You should be very familiar with general equilibrium using a mathematical approach (marginal utility, constrained consumer choice and marginal rates of substitution). Because uncertainty plays a key role you must have a firm understanding of statistics. You must not only be able to manipulate and calculate an expectation, variance and covariance, but have good intuition for each of these concepts as they play a key role: almost every problem/equation/equilibrium condition in this course involves expectation/covariance terms as key components.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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