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Postgraduate Course: Global Financial Markets and Emerging Economies (CMSE11129)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits15 ECTS Credits7.5
SummaryThe aim of the course is to introduce students to key issues related to the institutions and financial development in emerging markets. The course provides an introduction to legal origins, international corporate finance and asset pricing models. It also focuses on specific topics that include: family business and state ownership, and executive compensation in emerging markets.

Course description Students are expected to get acquainted with the law view and endowment view in the literature of law and finance, investor protection, corporate social responsibility, portfolio theory, asset pricing models and market efficiency theories in the global capital markets. This will be achieved by a mix of lectures on the related theories and discussion of published research in the area.
Syllabus
1. Law and finance
2. Endowments and finance
3. Culture and finance
4. Religion and finance
5. Agency theory: Directors and Board Structure
6. State ownership
7. Family-owned firms
8. Corporate social responsibilities
9. Portfolio theory and asset pricing models
10. Market efficiency
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Accounting and Financial Management (CMSE11104)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 150 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 119 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) Preparatory Reading 10x3hrs, Tutorial Prep 8x2hrs, Post Lecture Study 10x4hrs, Assignments33hrs
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 70 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Groups will present the findings of their reports in the tutorial slots in Week 10 and/or Week 11.
Feedback Feedback will be provided within 15 working days of submission, or in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course, whichever is sooner. Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which has been made clear to students at the start of the academic year.
Students will gain feedback on their understanding of the material after group presentation.
Feedback Format
Week 2 - 11 Feedback on discussion and group presentation

Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Understand the relation between law, endowment and financial development.
  2. Understand the importance of investor protection and social responsibilities.
  3. Understand portfolio theory, how to use asset pricing models to predict expected return.
  4. Appreciate problems and issues related to institutions, legal frameworks, disclosure regimes and financial risk that must be considered in emerging markets.
Reading List
The course features a mix of law and finance, corporate finance and investments. Detailed notes will be uploaded for each topic and will be supplemented with reading from academic and practitioner journals.

Allen, F., Qian, J., & Qian, M. (2005). Law, finance, and economic growth in China. Journal of financial economics, 77(1), 57-116.

Beck, T., Demirgüç-Kunt, A., & Levine, R. (2003). Law, endowments, and finance. Journal of Financial Economics, 70(2), 137-181.

La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. W. (1998). Law and Finance. The Journal of Political Economy, 106(6), 1113-1155.

La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. W. (1997). Legal determinants of external finance. Journal of finance, 1131-1150.

La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (2000). Investor protection and corporate governance. Journal of financial economics, 58(1), 3-27.

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Knowledge and Understanding:
On completion of the course students will:
- Understand the relation between law, endowment and financial development.
- Understand the importance of investor protection and social responsibilities.
- Understand portfolio theory, how to use asset pricing models to predict expected return.
- Appreciate problems and issues related to institutions, legal frameworks, disclosure regimes and financial risk that must be considered in emerging markets.

Cognitive Skills:
On completion of the course students should have demonstrated that they are able to:
- Acquire knowledge of the basic concepts of the structure and function of financial markets.
- Critically appraise issues related the problems involved in raising capital internationally.
- Present in an organised manner academic and clinical research studies related to the question of emerging market firms and global capital markets.
- Find and analyse relevant literature on issues related the role of international capital markets in providing capital for emerging market firms.

Key Skills:
On completion of the assessed course work students should be able to:

- Be able to present ideas and concepts in research in this area.
- Critically appraise the pros and cons about issues dealt with in this course.
- Write a concise report and present research on developments in emerging market corporate finance

Subject Specific Skills:
Students should be able to analyse and discuss important issues facing emerging market firms that wish to use international capital markets (including the effects of globalisation, the pros and cons of the raising capital globally, the costs and benefits of international disclosure and listing requirements and the management of risk etc.) as well as the understand related policy implications.
KeywordsIBEM-GFMEE
Contacts
Course organiserDr Wenxuan Hou
Tel: (0131 6)51 5319
Email:
Course secretaryMr Peter Newcombe
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email:
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