Stock valuation, option valuation, strategies with options and futures, the efficient market hypothesis, the foreign exchange market, central banks, monetary policy goals and tools, transmission mechanisms of monetary policy.
AI1134 Capital Markets and Financial Instruments 7.5 credits
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2026 Start 13 Jan 2026 programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 13 Jan 2026 - 13 Mar 2026
- Periods
Spring 2026: P3 (7.5 hp)
- Pace of study
50%
- Application code
60038
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
Swedish
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
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- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
- Schedule is not published
- Part of programme
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Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
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Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, course participant should be able to
- Apply common stock and option valuation methods.
- Describe and analyze different investment strategies with stocks and financial derivatives.
- Explain the meaning of the efficient market hypothesis, and give examples of arguments and evidence for and against this hypothesis.
- Analyze how exchange rates are determined.
- Analyze possible effects of monetary policy interventions.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Knowledge in mathematics corresponding to the content in course AI1144 Fundamentals of Residential Real Estate Finance 7,5 credits.
Literature
You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.
Examination and completion
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- PRO1 - Project, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TENB - Written exam, 5.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Technology
Education cycle
First cycle