Financial Economics
Presentation
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To introduce the students to the Financial Economics subjects, putting some emphasis into the Portuguese financial system, as well as to stress questions related to portfolio’s determination and analysis, financial investments and risk analysis.
Transferable Skills:
Understanding of the global financial system organization and in particular the basic functioning and instruments of the financial institutions, as well as the ability to the insertion in company’s financial, administrative or commercial sectors.
Contents
The Intermediaries, Financial Markets and Products.
The Portuguese Financial System.
Interest Rate Theory: Parity and Term Structure.
Financial Investments and Risk: Default Risk and Financial Asset’s Portfolio Management.
The Financial Instruments of Financial Risk’s Management.
Teaching Methods
Exposition and debate of the Unit Aims.
Commentary of the Unit objectives according to the financial and economics press coverage.
Practical exercises to a full understanding of the Unit goals.
Assessment
Continuous evaluation: two exams each corresponding to 50% of the final grade.
Final Exam: one exam at the end of the semester corresponding to the final grade.
Recommended Reading
ABREU, M., FERREIRA, C., BARATA, L. e ESCÁRIA, V. (2007) Economia Monetária e Financeira, Escolar Editora. [336.74 ABR e]
AFONSO, A., et al. (2004) Introdução à Economia Financeira: Teoria e Exercícios, Escolar Editora.
ALEXANDER, G., SHARPE, W. e BAILEY, J. (2001) Fundamentals of Investments, 3ª ed., Prentice-Hall. [366 ALE f]
BODIE, Z., KANE, A. and MARCUS, A. (2011) Investments and Portfolio Management, 9ª edition, McGraw-Hill. [2008: 336.76 BOD i]
CHISHOLM, A. (2002) An Introduction to Capital Markets: products, strategies, participants, John Wiley & Sons.
ELTON, E. e GRUBER, M. (2009) Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, 8ª ed., John Wiley and Sons. [1995: 658.15 ELT m]
FABOZZI, F., NEAVE, E. and ZHOU, G. (2012) Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons.
FONSECA, J. (2010) Economia Monetária e Financeira, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. [336.74 FON e]
HAUGEN, R. (2000) Modern Investment Theory, 5ª ed., Prentice-Hall International Editions. [1997: 658.15 HAU]
MISHKIN, F. e EAKINS, S. (2011) Financial Markets and Institutions, 7ª ed., Pearson Education. [2000: 336.7 MIS]
Teaching Staff
- Carlos Manuel Rodrigues Vieira [responsible]
