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40105-01 - Vorlesung: Macroeconomics and Finance (6 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2020 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Frühjahrsem. |
| Dozierende |
Lukas Hitz (lukas.hitz@unibas.ch)
Oliver Landmann (oliver.landmann@unibas.ch) Heinz Zimmermann (heinz.zimmermann@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Course outline Part Finance The lecture provides an overview on some of the key topics of the theory of finance 1) Capital market under certainty: Consumption, investment, economic growth, and interest rates; Fisher separation and economic implications 2) Capital market under uncertainty: Consumption-based pricing, risk aversion, state (SDF) valuation, CAPM, arbitrage pricing with applications to options 3) Corporate financial decisions: Capital structure and cost of capital, Modigliani-Miller, contingent-claim analysis of corporate securities, over- and underinvestment, real options, pecking order theory, payout decisions Course outline Part Macroeconomics: I Capital Accumulation, Growth, and Income Distribution 1. Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth (Solow and extensions) 2. Economic Growth, the Real Interest Rate and Income Distribution: the Piketty Debate II Asset Prices and Macroeconomic Stabilization 3. A Review of the Standard Short-Run Macro Model 4. Investment, Tobin’s q, and Aggregate Output 5. The New Keynesian Open-Economy Model and Swiss Exchange Rate Policy |
| Lernziele | Course objective: Introduction to key finance-related long-run and short-run issues in macroeconomics Treatment of key principles of financial economics, in particular related to time and uncertainty, and some corporate finance |
| Literatur | Reading Part Finance (recommended, not required): Cochrane, J., Asset pricing, Princeton Univ Press, 2005 Lengwiler, Y., Microfoundations of financial economics, Princeton Univ Press, 2006 Niepelt, D., Macroeconomic models, book draft, available online (chapters 3 and 4) de Matos, J.A., Theoretical foundations of corporate finance, Princeton Univ Press, 2001 Sharpe, W., Investors and markets, Princeton Univ Press, 2008 Readings Part Macroeconomics: David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 4th ed. 2012, Chapters 1 and 9. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, Inequality in the Long Run, Science, 344 (6186), 838-843 Olivier Blanchard, Alessia Amighini/Francesco Giavazzi, Macroeconomics – A European Perspective, 2nd.ed. 2014, Chapter 11. Olivier Blanchard, Output, the Stock Market, and Interest Rates, American Economic Review, 71, 1981, 132-143. Wendy Carlin/David Soskice, A New Keynesian Open Economy Model for Policy Analysis, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7979, September 2010. |
| Bemerkungen | Finance part: For each of the three subjects of the lecture, a package of slides is available. They are used in the lectures. |
| Weblink | Weblink to ADAM |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Completed Bachelor in Business and Economics |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Registration: Please enrol in MOnA. EUCOR-Students and students of other Swiss Universities have to enrol at the students administration office (studseksupport1@unibas.ch) within the official enrolment period. Enrolment = Registration for the exam! |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Grundlagenmodul: Advanced Topics in Economics (Masterstudium: International and Monetary Economics) Kernmodul: VWL (Masterstudium: Wirtschaftswissenschaften) (Pflicht) Modul Kernbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Fortgeschrittene (Masterstudium: Sustainable Development (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2017)) Modul: Ausgewählte Themen aus Ökonomie und Rechtswissenschaft (Masterstudium: Actuarial Science) Modul: Finanztheorie (Masterstudium: Actuarial Science) Modul: Kernbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Masterstudium: Sustainable Development) Modul: Methoden der Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Prüfung | Semesterendprüfung |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | written exam: 12.06.20; 12:45-14:15. St. Jakobshalle, Arena. Entrance opposite Tram Station St. Jakob You can still withdraw from the examination by submitting a completed, signed form to our office from 17.03.20 until 27.03.20 / 12:00 o’clock. Withdrawals sent by email will not be accepted. You will find the examination withdrawal form on the Homepage of the Student Dean’s Office. Prior to 16.03.20, please only use MONA for withdrawing. The exam rooms will be published up to 20.05.20. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmeldung: Belegen |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,1 |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ, studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ |