4409115: Financial Markets

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Semester:WS 17/18
Type:Lecture
Scheduled in semester:1
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:49.0 L / 37.0 h
Self-directed study time:143.2 h

Module coordination/Lecturers

Curricula

Master's degree programme in Finance (01.09.2015)

Description

  • Introduction to Financial Markets
  • Interest rates and bond prices
  • The structure of interest rates
  • Market efficiency
  • Monetary policy
  • Money markets
  • Bond markets
  • Mortgage markets
  • Derivative markets
  • Introduction to Financial Economics
  • Expected utility, Mean-variance and Prospect theory
  • Ambiguity
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • Behavioral CAPM
  • Basic two-period models
  • Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Lecture Goals

After the completion of the module the students know how the most important financial markets work and which instruments are traded on them. They know and are able to use in examples the groundwork of decision theory and asset pricing models. An insight into behavioural aspects is approached

Learning Outcomes

Students...
> know how interest rates and bond prices are related and influence each other
> know different structures and theories of interest rates
> are able to explain what market efficiency is and know evidence for different stages
> can explain how monetary policy is used to influence financial markets
> know the dynamics of money, bond, derivatives and mortgage markets
> are able to use all classic decision theories to solve exemplary problems
> know the assumptions underlying each decision model
> understand what ambiguity is and how it influences decisions
> understand and are able to use different pricing models on basic exemplary problems

Qualifications

Exam Modalities

Written exam (60 minutes)

Dates

DatumZeitRaum
12.09.201709:00 - 12:15H4
14.09.201709:00 - 12:15H4
19.09.201709:00 - 12:15H4
21.09.201709:00 - 12:15H4
26.09.201713:15 - 16:30H4

Exams

  • PWW-MA_Financial Markets (WS 17/18, bewertet)
  • PWW-MA_Financial Markets (SS 18, bewertet)