75755 - Financial instruments and financial markets

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Moduli: Vincenzo Denicolò (Modulo 1) Gabriele Camera (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)

Learning outcomes

The goal of theis course is to give students theoretical knowledge and skills related to financial investments. Studets will learn how to evaluate financial instruments using the most frequently used evaluation models from modern financial theory, and how these financial instruments are traded on financial markets. This is part of the job of a financial analyst.

Course contents

1. Financial assets and risk

2. The efficient frontier

3. Optimal portfolio choice in the mean-variance approach

4. The separation property

5. Mean-variance v. expected utility

6. The single index model

7. The Capital Asset Pricing Model

8. Multi index models

9. Arbitrage Pricing Theory

10. Valuation of stocks and bonds

11. options pricing

 

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Bodie, Kane e Marcus, Investment and Portfolio Management, McGraw Hill, 2013

Elton e Gruber, Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, Wiley, 2012

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written exams

Teaching tools

Software programs for the calculation of the optimal portfolio will be demonstrated

Office hours

See the website of Vincenzo Denicolò

See the website of Gabriele Camera