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FİN 440:Financial Markets and Institutions – 3KU credits
Subject
(6ECTS credits)
(code, title,
credits)
Economics and Management
Department
Undergraduate
Program
(undergraduate,
graduate)
Fall, 2012
Term
Nigar Ismaylova
Instructor
nignazim@hotmail.com
E-mail:
Phone:
Bashir Safaroglu122, ROOM # 34, WDN 10:30 – 13:30
Classroom/hours
Office hours
FIN 310: Fundamentals of Financial Management
English
Compulsory
Financial Markets and Institutions, ME Mishkin and Eakins Addison-Wesley, 4th
edition
The outline are: (1) to provide a perspective on how financial markets and institutions
fit in to the economy; (2) to help you understand the importance of money, credit, and
interest rates; (3) to describe the function of various financial markets - money
markets, equity markets, derivatives markets, and their numerous financial
instruments; (4) to help students to understand the regulations and objectives of
government agencies such as Fed (Federal Reserve Bank); (5) to provide a perspective
on the business of financial institutions such as commercial/investment banks,
investment funds; and (6) to provide the terminology used in financial markets.
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the institutions and markets that
form the worldwide economic system of trading financial and real assets. The course
will cover concepts of financial theory, institutional detail, regulations, and the history
of the financial markets. Students will be exposed to legal, ethical, technological, and
global issues facing financial managers, financial markets, and the financial assets
traded in these markets.
Lecture
Group discussion
Experiential exercise
Case analysis
Recitation
Course paper
Others
Methods
Midterm Exam
Case studies
Class Participation
Assignment and quizzes
Project
Presentation/Group
Discussion
Final Exam
Others
Total
X
X
X
X
Date/deadlines
Policy
Tentative Schedule
Percentage (%)
30
10
25
35
100
Week
1
Date/Day
(tentative)
19.09.2012
Textbook/Assignments
Topics
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE, THE FINANCIAL
SYSTEM
2
3
4
26.09.2012
03.10.2012
10.10.2012
HOW INTEREST RATES ARE DETERMINED
UNDERSTANDING MONEY MARKETS
5
6
7
8
17.10.2012
24.10.2012
31.10.2012
07.11.2012
UNDERSTANDING MORTGAGE MARKETS
UNDERSTANDING STOCK MARKETS
Midterm Exam
9
14.11.2012
10
11
21.11.2012
28.11.2012
THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF CHAPTERS 1-8 IN
PREPARATION OF THE MIDTERM EXAMINATION.
MID-TERM EXAM (CHAPTER 1-8)
HEDGING WITH FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES
UNDERSTANDING INTEREST RATE DERIVATIVE
MARKETS
12
UNDERSTANDING OF BOND MARKETS
UNDERSTANDING FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS
05.12.2012
UNDERSTANDING EQUITY MARKETS
THEORY OF FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
13
14
15
16
17
12.12.2012
19.12.2012
26.12.2012
Will be
announced
Will be
announced
Will be
announced
COMMERCIAL BANK OPERATIONS
FINANCIAL BANK INSTITUTIONS: SECURITIES
OPERATIONS
NON-BANK DEPOSITARY AND INSURANCE
INTERMEDIARIES : THRIFT OPERATIONS
NON-BANK DEPOSITARY AND INSURANCE
INTERMEDIARIES : CREDIT UNIONS
NON-BANK DEPOSITARY AND INSURANCE
INTERMEDIARIES : INSURANCE OPERATIONS
OTHER NON-BANK FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES:
CONSUMER FINANCE OPERATIONS
OTHER NON-BANK FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES:
PENSION FUND OPERATIONS
COURSE OVERVIEW, PREPARATION FOR FINALTERM EXAM
FINAL
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4, Quizze #1
(Chapter 1-3)
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6.
CHAPTER 7. Quizze #2
(Chapter 4-6)
CHAPTER 8.
CHAPTER 1-8
CHAPTER 9, CHAPTER
10.
CHAPTER 11,
CHAPTER 12
QUIZZE #3 (CHAPTER
9-11)
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14, CHAPTER
15
CHAPTER 16,
CHAPTER 17
Quizze #4 (Chapter 12-14)
CHAPTER 18, CHAPTER
19
Quizze #5 (Chapter 15-17)
CHAPTER 9-18