This course aims to assist the student to understand
the role of financial institutions and markets play in the business environment
and also to develop a series of applications of principles from finance and
economics. The main subjects will include interest rates, stocks, principals of
derivatives, and currencies as well as commercial banks, investment banks,
insurance companies, mutual funds, the Federal Reserve Systems. The course also
will cover Models for portfolio decisions by investors and the pricing of
securities in capital markets, theory of choice under uncertainty, stochastic
properties of security prices, portfolio theory, asset pricing models, term
structure models and pricing of derivative securities
- Teacher: Murad Bein