Postgraduate - UnitECX5475 - Financial economics

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Stephen 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.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

understand the trade-off between risk and return
develop the ability to understand literature in financial economics
understand the concepts of adaptive and rational expectations
develop analytical, written and oral skills by writing and presenting research papers.