Advanced
Financial Economics (BSc)

Syllabus

 

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I am honored to receive the School of Economics Lecturer of the Year Award for this module in 2025!

Lectures:

• Lecture 0 : Introduction

• Lecture 1: Capital structure irrelevance

• Lecture 2: Agency theory of capital structure

• Lecture 3: Tradeoff theory of capital structure

• Lecture 4: Firm taxation and investment (with an application to the Shareholder tax cuts in the U.S.)

• Lecture 5: Portfolio choice theory (with an application to simulated trading)

• Lecture 6: Consumption-based Capital Asset Pricing Model

• Lecturer 7: Derivative Securities

• Lecture 8: Option pricing

Tutorials:

• Tutorial 1

• Tutorial 2

• Tutorial 3

Exercises:

• Exercise 1

• Exercise 2

• Exercise 3

• Exercise 4

• Exercise 5

Coursework :

• Simulated Trading Assignment

Final exam:

• Fall term 2024

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