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Postgraduate Course: Financial Markets and Institutions (CMSE11166)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits15 ECTS Credits7.5
SummaryManagers in charge of the risk function in banks require background knowledge of the function of banks in a financial system, how interest rates, a key price for the banking business, are determined, how the markets in which some of the assets banks hold are exchanged and how markets determine prices for different types of products and securities.
Course description This course gives fundamental knowledge on the structure, function and role of the financial system in light of the complex web of links and interconnections with the banking sector. The course will cover financial intermediaries, financial instruments and the different markets where credit institutions are active players.

Syllabus
Overview of the Financial System
Interest Rates
Money Markets
Capital Markets: Bond Markets and Stock Markets
Foreign Exchange Markets and International Financial Markets
Hedging and Derivatives Markets
Depository Institutions and Contractual Saving Institutions
Securities Market Institutions and Investment Institutions
Financial Market Failure, Crises and Regulation

Student Learning Experience
Teaching involves 10 lectures and 4 tutorials. The course will possibly have lectures by one or two guest speakers. The learning outcomes will be achieved by information imparted in lectures, by the discussions and participation in tutorials, by the process of researching information and through writing the essay.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. understand and critically discuss economic principles behind the determination of interest rates.
  2. understand and critically discuss what determines the demand and supply of money.
  3. understand and critically discuss why financial institutions exist.
  4. understand and critically discuss how the prices of equities are determined and different degrees of stock market efficiency.
  5. understand and critically evaluate different types of money and bond markets instruments and how these markets work.
Reading List
P. Howells and K. Bain (2007): Financial Markets and Institutions. Pearson, 5th Ed.

F.S. Mishkin and S.G. Eakins (2015): Financial Markets and Institutions. Pearson, 8th Ed.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Cognitive Skills:

After completing this course, students should be able to:
- apply interest rate concepts to values of certain types of securities;
- apply demand and supply concepts to understand price movements of different types of assets;
- analyse causes of changes in exchange rates;
- analyse the effects of moral hazard and information asymmetry on financial structure, bank and insurance company decisions.

Subject Specific Skills:

After completing this course, students should be able to:
- compute present value, real interest rates and duration;
- find the price of a stock given certain information.
KeywordsFinancial Markets,Financial Instruments,Financial Institutions,Market Prices
Contacts
Course organiserDr Joosung Lee
Tel: (0131 6)51 1375
Email:
Course secretaryMiss Ashley Harper
Tel: (0131 6)51 5671
Email:
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