Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4310025 Economics and Business Administration | OT | 0 | 2 |
Fundamentals of Economics and Business I
Fundamentals of Economics and Business II
Finance I: Financial Economics, Asset Pricing and Financial Strategies
Foundations of finance: Assets, market behavior, market phenomena, and decisions about saving, consumption and investment. Value creation in financial markets: Required rate of return and asset pricing of shares, bonds and derivatives.
1. Decisions and Portfolio Choice under Uncertainty
2. General Equilibrium under Uncertainty and the Valuation of Contingent Claims
3. Incomplete Markets
4. Term Structure of Interest Rates. Bond Management
5. Information, Market Efficiency and Market Regulation
6. Mean-Variance Models: CAPM and APT
7. Share Valuation Models
8. Derivatives: Pricing and Strategies
The activities that will allow the students to learn the basic concepts included in this course are:
1. Theory lectures where the instructor will explain the main concepts.
The goal of this activity is to introduce the basic notions and guide the student learning.
2. Problem Sets
In some subjects, a problem set which students will have to solve individually or in teams will be included in every unit. The goal of this activity is twofold. On one hand students will work with the theoretical concepts explained in the classroom, and on the other hand through this practice they will develop the necessary skills for problem solving.
3. Practice lectures
The aim of this activity is to comment on and solve any possible doubt that students may have had solving the problem assignment. This way they will be able to understand and correct any errors they may have had during this process.
4. Essay writing
In some subjects, students will produce written essays on the topics proposed.
5. Tutoring hours
Students will have some tutor hours in which the subject instructors will help them solve any doubts they may have.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures with ITC support | 37.5 | 1.5 | 14, 5, 10, 9, 8 |
Resolution of exercises | 37.5 | 1.5 | 14, 4, 5, 10, 9, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutoring and monitoring work in progress. In-class presentations | 62.5 | 2.5 | 1, 13, 14, 4, 7, 6, 5, 12, 11, 10, 2, 3, 9, 8, 15 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study, Reading, Exercise solving, Essays writing, | 79.5 | 3.18 | 1, 13, 14, 4, 7, 6, 5, 12, 11, 10, 2, 9, 8, 15 |
The module consists of a number of different subjects or parts taught by different professors. The final mark for the module will consist of the average of the marks of each subject within the module.
The module is considered successfully passed if:
If the module is not successfully passed the MEBA coordinators will ask the student to re-take the exams for those subjects that, according to the coordinators and the professors opinions, may help the student to successfully pass the module. If the student passes the re-take exam he or she will obtain a mark of 5 for that subject, otherwise the previous grade will remain valid. The calendar for the re-retake exams will be announced along with the grades report.
The mark -between 0 and 10- for each subject will be computed by each professor based on his or her ow criteria and on the student's performance. As a general rule, 35% of the mark will correspond to the assessment of the continuous work of the student duringthe course, and 65% will consist of a comprehensive final examination. The duration and nature of the final examination is decided by each professor.
IMPORTANT: in order to pass each subject students must attend at least 80% of the lectures (special cases, with appropriate justification, will be considered individually by the professors together with MEBA coordinators).
Final exams are compulsory. Re-take exams are only thought for those students having previously written a first exam and failed.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exercises and essays | 35% | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 13, 14, 4, 7, 6, 5, 12, 11, 10, 2, 3, 9, 8, 15 |
Topic Exam I | 21.66% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 13, 14, 4, 6, 10, 8, 15 |
Topic Exam II | 21.66% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 13, 4, 5, 12, 11, 8, 15 |
Topic Exam III | 21.66% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 13, 4, 7, 9, 8, 15 |