Undergraduate - UnitETC3460 - Financial econometrics

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Offered	Clayton First semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Keith McLaren

Synopsis

The specification, estimation and testing of asset pricing models, including the capital asset pricing model and extensions; the statistical characteristics of financial data emphasising skewness, kurtosis and volatility aspects; volatility models such as ARCH models of financial time series, with applications to stock prices, derivatives, and exchange rates including the forecast performance of these models.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

describe the time series and distributional features of financial data
explain appropriate specification, estimation and testing of asset pricing models
evaluate the need for volatility models for financial returns
describe the specification and estimation of conditional volatility models.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Keith McLaren

Contact hours

4 hours per week

Prerequisites

Students must have passed one of the following units: AFC1100, AFC2000, AFC2100, AFC2140 and also one from the following: ECC2410, ETC2410, ETC3440, ETC4344, ETX9344 or be granted permission, before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

ETC4346, ETF3300, ETF9300