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40105-01 - Vorlesung: Macroeconomics and Finance 6 KP

Semester Frühjahrsemester 2017
Angebotsmuster Jedes Frühjahrsem.
Dozierende Michael Huynh (michael.huynh@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
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.
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Teilnahmebedingungen Completed Bachelor in Business and Economics
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung Registration: Please enrol in MOnA. EUCOR-Students and Exchange-Students have to enrol at the students administration office (studsek@unibas.ch) within the official enrolment period. Enrolment = Registration for the exam!
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
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Module Grundlagenmodul: Advanced Topics in Economics (Master International and Monetary Economics)
Kernmodul VWL (Master Wirtschaftswissenschaften) (Pflicht)
Modul Ausgewählte Themen aus Ökonomie und Rechtswissenschaft (Masterstudium: Actuarial Science)
Modul Internationales Zusatzwissen (Masterstudium: European Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.02.2015))
Modul Kernbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Fortgeschrittene (Master Sustainable Development)
Modul Methoden der Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Masterstudium: European Global Studies)
Modul Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Grundlagen der Europäischen Integration (Masterstudium: European Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.02.2015))
Leistungsüberprüfung Semesterendprüfung
Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung written exam: 19.06.2017; 14:30-16:00. HS 102: A-ENG; WWZ S15: ERN-GRA; WWZ Audi: GRO-IR; Physik: IV-NU; Vesalianum: NY-SA;.Bernoullianum: SCH-Z.
The addresses of the examination halls can be found here: http://wwz.unibas.ch/studium/pruefungen/raeume/
You can still withdraw from the examination by submitting a completed, signed form to our office from 21.03.17 until 31.03.17 / 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 20.03.17, please only use MONA for withdrawing. The exam rooms will be published up to 25.05.17.
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