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Financial Markets - ECO00020M

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  • Department: Economics and Related Studies
  • Module co-ordinator: Prof. Peter Smith
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2021-22

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

To examine the main empirical features of three key financial markets: the foreign exchange market, the bond market, and the stock market.

Module learning outcomes

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Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed exam : Financial Markets		 2 hours 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed exam : Financial Markets		 2 hours 100

Module feedback

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Indicative reading

These will comprise mainly texts but a number of artivles will also be recommende in the lectures.

Course Texts
Cochrane, J., Asset Pricing, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Cuthbertson, K., and Nitzsche, D. Quantitative Financial Economics, Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2005.

Comment
Cutherbertson and Nitzsche provide a more accessible treatment of empirical finance than Cochrane which is more advanced but less comprehensive.


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