Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate, Postgraduate - Unit

ECC4750 - Financial economics

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2011 (Day) Australia (Other) Second semester 2011 (Off-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Steph Miller

Synopsis

Theories of hedging and speculation; determination of spot and futures prices, and intertemporal allocation; market efficiency; expectations, including adaptive expectations and rational expectations.

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%

Chief examiner(s)

Stephen Miller

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

ECC4650 or ECX5465

Prohibitions

ECX5475