Academic Year: | 2019/0 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Economics |
Credits: | 12 [equivalent to 24 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 240 |
Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
Period: |
- Academic Year
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Assessment Summary:
| CW 35%, EX-TH 50%, OT 15%* |
Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework* (CW 35%)
- Test* (OT 15%)
- Open book, 72 hour take-home exam* (EX-TH 50%)
*Assessment updated due to Covid-19 disruptions |
Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take ES10002 OR take ES10010
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Description:
| Aims:
* To provide an introduction to financial markets and their operation;
* To understand the pricing of financial instruments;
* To enable students to understand the links between financial markets and the real economy;
* To demonstrate linkages between economic policy and financial markets.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the unit students should be able to:
* analyse the roles of financial markets and financial intermediaries;
* explain how the pricing of financial instruments takes place;
* understand the link between financial markets and economic policy.
Skills: Use and analysis of economic data; problem-solving; understanding of financial and monetary theory expressed in written form through an examination.
Content: Financial decision making with risky assets; portfolio diversification; introduction to the CAPM model; interest rate determination; overview of the operation of money markets and how money market instruments are priced; introduction to bond markets; the term structure of interest rates; introduction to derivative markets - futures, options, swaps.
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Programme availability: |
ES20070 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics (Year 2)
- UHES-AAB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Study year abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UHES-AFB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics (Year 2)
- UHES-AAB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Study year abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-AKB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UHES-ACB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Combined Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
- UHES-ACB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Combined Placement and Study Abroad (Year 2)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 2)
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 2)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 2)
- UHSP-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 2)
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