ECC5750 - Financial economics

Leader: Dr Steph Miller

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (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

Within semester assessment: 100%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in course code 3194 to undertake this unit