Financial Economics I Dublin City University - Full Curriculum Program Fall 2022 Semester - Dublin

Students will learn how to use standard financial economic methods for investment decisions and option pricing in a discrete and continuous time setting. The methods include mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, and pricing derivatives with binomial tree models. These topics will also be discussed from a real-world financial markets perspective Students will participate in the following learning activities: Lectures: Students will attend a series of lectures designed to cover the syllabus objectives of subject CT8 of the Institute of Actuaries (along with MS428). Tutorials: Tutorials will cover working through past exam papers and will also cover Excel skills.