Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Введение в финансы
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Совместная программа по экономике НИУ ВШЭ и РЭШ)
Направление:
38.03.01. Экономика
Где читается:
Факультет экономических наук
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is a first course in finance and will give you an overview over the most commonfinancial instruments, contemporary financial markets and financial intermediaries. In whatfollows, it covers the basic topics in Corporate Finance and Investments. Core concepts will includethe time value of money, opportunity costs, arbitrage pricing, bond valuation, stock valuation,concepts of risk, portfolio theory, investment strategies, asset pricing, market efficiency, andcapital structure.Financial markets and corporations generate a large quantity of data. An important part of thecourse will be to visualize and analyze price data for different financial instruments (stocks, bonds,indices, derivatives). The programming language of choice for this course is R, and you are highlyencouraged to learn its basics. This gives you a single tool to perform such diverse tasks as datavisualization, finding polynomial roots (e.g., an internal rate of return), bond valuation, portfoliooptimization, estimating factor models, and derivative pricing