Introduction in Finance

2022/2023

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Отдел сопровождения учебного процесса в Совместном бакалавриате ВШЭ-РЭШ

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватель

Шпренгер Карстен

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course is a first course in finance and will give you an overview over the most common financial instruments, contemporary financial markets and financial intermediaries. In what follows, it covers the basic topics in Corporate Finance and Investments. Core concepts will include the time value of money, opportunity costs, arbitrage pricing, bond valuation, stock valuation, concepts of risk, portfolio theory, investment strategies, asset pricing, market efficiency, and capital structure. Financial markets and corporations generate a large quantity of data. An important part of the course will be to visualize and analyze price data for different financial instruments (stocks, bonds, indices, derivatives). The programming language of choice for this course is R, and you are highly encouraged to learn its basics. This gives you a single tool to perform such diverse tasks as data visualization, finding polynomial roots (e.g., an internal rate of return), bond valuation, portfolio optimization, estimating factor models, and derivative pricing