Bachelor 2024/2025

Introduction in Finance

Type: Elective course (HSE/NES Programme in Economics)

Area of studies: Economics

Delivered by: Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 3 year, 3, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 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