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2022-2023 Catalog

MG 762 Financial Markets and Institutions

This course deals with the composition of the Capital Markets, the functions performed by financial markets; the flow of funds in the market; the fundamentals of interest rate determination and the term structure of the interest rates; interest rate risk; default risk; the analysis and valuation of the exchange rates traded in financial markets; the regulation of the financial markets and institutions; the deregulation movement; the money supply process; the hedging in the financial markets in the presence of economic uncertainty; risk metrics; option valuation, hedging, forward and futures contracts, swaps and other off balance derivative concepts. Students will analyze the impact of structural, policy, operational and legislative changes on the system.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MG 670

Corequisite

AC 591