Financial Theory and Policy - MFIN6214
Faculty: Australian School of Business
School: School of Banking and Finance
Course Outline: http://banking.web.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: enrolment in program 8406
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Gives an advanced treatment of the main theoretical foundations of finance, including investment decision making, utility theory, portfolio theory, asset pricing and option pricing theory, real options, capital market efficiency, agency theory, cost of capital and capital structure, dividend policy and corporate governance. Special treatment is given to unsolved problems or anomalies in finance. Provides a treatment of the main developments in finance theory over the past 40 years, and provides the theoretical foundations for subsequent finance study within the Master of Finance degree.
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