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Economics 395Financial Economics Spring 2002, Prof. Philip Ganderton
The world of finance ranges from personal finances to government finances. From balancing your checking account to balancing the federal budget. Such a wide range that it must be split into pieces to be studied. This piece focuses on securities—financial assets that include stocks and bonds. Financial Economics is the economic study of securities markets. This course will introduce you to the models used to value securities, to determine what to buy and sell, and when. It is the logical successor to Economics 212, Personal Investing. But be warned—there’s mathematics ahead. Nothing daunting, but some algebra, a little calculus and some statistics. Just enough to understand more about the markets for stocks and bonds, and options and futures. Whether you want to work in a corporate finance department, or simply decide if it’s a good time to change your retirement fund from growth equities to bonds, whether you’re a bull or a bear, or too shy to ask what an option is, this course is for economics students who want to better understand the financial markets. It is not an investing class (that’s 212), but we’ll talk about investing all the time. It’s not a corporate finance class, but we’ll be talking about debt/equity ratios. It’s not public finance, but we’ll be talking about the federal debt and taxes.
The Graduate Assistant for this course is Wenxia Ying.
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Worthy sites: The Economist, obviously |