Establishment
Language of instruction
English
Teaching content
FINANCE
This course occurs in the following program(s)
IESEG Degree - Programme Grande École
- Crédits ECTS: 3.00
Training officer(s)
A.RUBESAM
Stakeholder(s)
RUBESAM Alexandre, ALLES RODRIGUES Alexandre, BERTRAND Jérémie, CASALIN Fabrizio, DUBOIS Vincent, GATFAOUI Hayette, HIKMI Ahmed, LEURQUIN Eric, MAZZA Paolo, PION Daniel, RUBESAM Alexandre, ZYLSTRA Andrew
Présentation
Prerequisite
Finance Fundamentals
Goal
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Be familiarized with characteristics and mechanisms of financial markets.
- Understand what is a financial market and what are its main functions
- Understand what is a financial security, the main types of financial securities (bonds, stocks, funds), their functions, and how they are valued.
- Understand the concept of market efficiency
- Understand the sources and causes of the recent financial crisis.
- Understand the basics of the monetary policy of the ECB (Fed)
Be familiarized with characteristics and mechanisms of financial markets.
- Understand what is a financial market and what are its main functions
- Understand what is a financial security, the main types of financial securities (bonds, stocks, funds), their functions, and how they are valued.
- Understand the concept of market efficiency
- Understand the sources and causes of the recent financial crisis.
- Understand the basics of the monetary policy of the ECB (Fed)
Presentation
1) Overview of the financial system
2) Debt market
3) Stock market
4) Mutual Funds
5) Financial crisis and monetary policy
2) Debt market
3) Stock market
4) Mutual Funds
5) Financial crisis and monetary policy
Modalités
Organization
Type | Amount of time | Comment | |
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Autoformation | |||
Lecture du manuel de référence | 24,00 | Students must read the relevant chapters of the textbook. | |
Travail personnel | |||
Charge de travail personnel indicative | 27,00 | Students will have to read two articles on topics such as the financial crisis (subprime/sovereign) and high-frequency trading. Questions on these articles will be done in class. Moreover, students have to prepare the tutorials before attending the clas | |
Présentiel | |||
Cours magistral | 14,00 | It is assumed that students will have read the course materials/textbook before each sessions. Given the program, it is not possible to spend much time on the simplest parts of the program, which in any case should already be familiar to the students. In | |
Travaux dirigés | 10,00 | ||
Overall student workload | 75,00 |
Evaluation
Students will be assessed through (i) a continuous assessment, consisting of group discussion/presentation of selected papers, (ii) a midterm exam, which may contain MCQs as well as a mix of conceptual and quantitative questions and exercises, and (iii) a final exam, whose level of difficulty is higher than that of the midterm. The final exam will consist of a mix of conceptual and quantitative questions and exercises. Feedback will provided throughout the course. Tutorial sessions will provide an opportunity to discuss detailed solutions to qualitative and quantitative exercises. Additionally, answers to quantitative questions will be provided to students so they can check their work. In terms of assessments, a collective feedback on the performance of the group will be provided by each professor shortly after the midterm and paper discussions/presentations (this may be done electronically for the final exam).
Control type | Duration | Amount | Weighting |
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Examen (final) | |||
Examen écrit | 2,00 | 1 | 50,00 |
Contrôle continu | |||
Examen partiel | 1,50 | 1 | 30,00 |
Contrôle continu | 0,25 | 2 | 20,00 |
TOTAL | 100,00 |
Ressources
Bibliography
Mishkin "Financial markets and institutions", Pearson, 9 ed. -
Internet resources