Course Descriptions of Finance
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AE501
Microeconomic Theory [4 credits]: The course provides a rigorous
analytical treatment of the standard microeconomic models of consumer and firm
behavior, market equilibrium, general equilibrium, and game theory, and it
prepares students for further graduate work in the theoretical and applied
fields of economics. The emphasis of the course is on methods and analytical tools
as well as the presentation of received results. The student acquires the
skills necessary to read and understand the professional literature and to
apply the theory to a wide variety of economic problems and policies.
Prerequisite: University level of Microeconomics.
AE520
Corporate Finance [3 credits]: This advanced study of corporate
financial analysis and planning includes capital budgeting, cost of capital,
and capital structure and valuation. Selected topics that may be covered are
mergers and acquisition, IPO, financial distress and reorganization, etc. A
combination of lectures and case-study discussion is used to illustrate
theories and techniques helpful in financial analysis.
AE522
Financial Economics [3 credits]: The focus of this course is on given
economic interpretation for financial issues. The course covers the principles
of asset pricing, such as efficient market hypothesis, the measure of risk
aversion, risk diversifying, conditional expectation, stochastic
discount factor model. The course will also cover some most important empirical
test results on multifactor asset pricing models, ARCH and GARCH models,
technical analysis, behavioral finance. If time allowed, we will introduce the
empirical results about
FI500
Financial Accounting [2 credits] The course is
designed to meet the needs of a wide array of students. The content of this
course covers financial accounting concepts, principles, and analysis. Its
major focus is on the understanding, and analysis for business decisions.
FI501
Theory of Finance [2 credits] this course covers Theory of Finance for
graduate level of students. For students intending to do further work in
Finance, this course will lay the basic foundation of concepts used in advanced
courses. Prerequisite: university level of Finance.
FI503 Financial Econometrics [4 credits] Introduces
students to multiple regression methods for analyzing data in economics and
related disciplines. The objective of the course is for the student to
learn how to conduct empirical studies in economics and related fields.
Accordingly, the emphasis of the course is on empirical applications. The
econometric theory will be introduced when needed. Popular software for
econometric analysis will be introduced as well. Prerequisite: knowledge of
algebra, basic probability and statistics. Prerequisite: University level of
Econometrics.
FI504 Quantitative Finance:
Markets, Trading and Hedging[2 credits]
This course
presents classical quantitative finance, which is extremely useful in both
academia and in the real world, especially for many financial institutions
crying out for the Quant-Guys. It will introduce the classic quantitative
methods which will apply to financial markets. Markets, products, derivatives,
many famous models, hedging methods and numerical methods will be included.
It’s a good and practical training for nurturing future financial
practitioners.