2024/2025

Financial Markets and Instruments

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Master's Programmes Curriculum Support

When: 1 module

Online hours: 20

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 10

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Financial markets and Instruments course is focused on the features and the use of various types of financial instruments including stocks, bonds and derivatives. Moreover, the course covers financial intermediation, market infrastructure and regulation. The emphasis is made on general economic intuition rather than on quantitative models. The course is a major professional core course of the online degree Master program “Business analytics and strategic business reporting”. Financial Markets and Instruments is the basic course, which is required for the further study of asset pricing using various quantitative models. These topics are covered in the Theory of Finance.