Area: | School of Economics and Finance |
Credits: | 50.0 |
Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | The basic building blocks of financial intermediation including concepts relating to risk preferences, diversification, riskless arbitrage, options, market efficiency, market compenteness, asymmetric information and signaling, 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. |
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Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | Extensive reading list of journals and texts issued to students in class. |
Unit Texts: | Greenbaum, S.I. and Thakor, A.V. (1995). Contemporary Financial Intermediation. Sydney, Dryden Press. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Presentations (Journal Article) 25%, Attendance and Participation 15%, Presentation (Project) 20%, Project 40%. This is done by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 81101 Banking and Finance | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Not Categorised | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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