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AI1134 Capital Markets and Financial Instruments 7.5 credits

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Application

For course offering

Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students

Application code

60504

Headings with content from the Course syllabus AI1134 (Spring 2023–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

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.

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

Completed course:

AI1144 Fundamentals of Residential Real Estate Finance 

Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, by F.S. Mishkin, Global Edition. Pearson. We recommend the latest edition.

The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, av F. S. Mishkin, Global edition. Pearson. 

Corporate Finance, Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, Pearson.

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

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.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Profile picture Han-Suck Song

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

ABE/Real Estate Economics and Finance

Main field of study

Technology

Education cycle

First cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Han-Suck Song, 08-790 9569, han-suck.song@abe.kth.se