ECC5750 - Financial economics

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Attitude toward risk, decision making by discretionary hedgers in futures markets; price determination and performance of futures markets; price determination and performance of futures markets; price determination and hedging in options markets; capital asset pricing model.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• have an understanding of how to think about the trade-off between risk and return
• have the ability to read literature in financial economics.

Assessment

Class paper and in-class presentation: 40%
Individual research project: 60%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

ECC4650