ECON 504/5241 - Financial Economics (3 cr.)

Prerequisites

and consent of instructor

Description
Analysis of financial assets and institutions. The course emphasizes modern asset valuation theory and the role of financial intermediaries, and their regulation, in the financial system. State-preference theory and optimal portfolio decision mean-variance portfolio theory, measuring portfolio risk and return, Capital Asset Pricing model (CAPM), Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), Option Pricing Theory, the Black-Scholes formula, Asymmetric information and rational expectations, term structure of interest rates.

When Offered
Offered in fall.

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AUC New Cairo Campus

AUC Tahrir Square Campus

New York

ECON 504/5241 - Financial Economics (3 cr.)