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Financial Economics L2-S4

Etablissement : JUNIA Grande école d’ingénieurs

Langue : Anglais

Période : S4

The students must remember what they learnt in first year in the course “Economics of Globalisation”.

  • Going further in the study of economics started in 1st year.

  • Focusing on money, finance and financial systems.

At the end of this course, the student should be able to understand financial economics

  • An introduction to money and the financial system

  • Money and payment system

  • Financial instruments, financial markets and financial institutions

  • Future value, present value and interest rate

  • Understanding risk

  • Bonds bond prices and the determination of interest rates

  • The risk and term structure of interest rates

  • Stock markets

  • Derivatives: future options and swaps

  • Foreign exchange

  • Central bank balance sheet and the money supply process