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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

12893 (v.4) Banking (Contemporary Issues) 580

Area: School of Economics and Finance
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The basic building blocks of financial intermediation including concepts relating to risk preferences, diversification, riskless arbitrage, options, market efficiency, market competiveness, asymmetric information and signalling, agency and moral hazard, time consistency, Nash equilibrium and revision of beliefs, and Bayes' Rule. We discuss the nature and variety of financial intermediation and what it is.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 081101 Banking and Finance
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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