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65938-01 - Lecture: Finance (6 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Every fall sem. |
| Lecturers | Angelo Ranaldo (angelo.ranaldo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Finance is a 6 ECTS credit course. It involves a total of 12 lectures, 6 seminars, 2 guest lectures, 2 Q&A sessions, 2 home-work assignment sessions and 2 exam practice sessions. The language of instruction is English. All course materials will be made available on ADAM. The objective of this course is to provide students with an advanced treatment of modern finance theory. The course proceeds in two parts: Part 1: Finance Theory • Risk and Return • Asset Pricing • Market (In-)Efficiency Part 2: Financial Instruments • Fixed Income • Derivatives |
| Learning objectives | Having completed this course, students will understand the key concepts of finance theory, as well as the modern developments in this field. Students will be equipped with the skills to solve problems in this area independently. |
| Bibliography | The main study material are the course and seminar slides. The course partly follows: (1) Bodie, Z., Kane, A. and Marcus, A.J. (2024). Investments. McGraw-Hill, 13th edition. (2) Pedersen, L. H. (2015). Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined. Princeton University Press. (3) Brealey, R., Myers, S., and Allen, F. (2016). Principles of Corporate Finance. McGraw-Hill, 12th edition. Any other additional reading material, incl. current academic literature , will be provided directly on ADAM. |
| Weblink | Further Information |
| Admission requirements | Basic mathematics and statistics are required (e.g. derivatives, variances and covariances, linear regression). |
| Course application | Registration: Please enroll in the Online Services (services.unibas.ch); Eucor-Students and mobility students of other Swiss Universities or the FHNW first have to register at the University of Basel BEFORE the start of the course and receive their login data by post (e-mail address of the University of Basel). Processing time up to a week! Detailed information can be found here: https://www.unibas.ch/de/Studium/Mobilitaet.html After successful registration you can enroll for the course in the Online Services (services.unibas.ch). Applies to everyone: Enrolment = Registration for the course and the exam! |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 09.15-11.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Auditorium |
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 12.15-14.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Auditorium |
Dates
| Modules |
Module: Core Courses in Finance, Controlling, Banking (Master's Studies: Business and Economics) Module: Fundamentals in Finance and Money (Master's Studies: Finance and Money) Module: Selected Subjects of Economics and Jurisprudence (Master's Studies: Actuarial Science) Module: Specific Electives in Business and Economics (Master's Studies: Business and Economics) Module: Specific Electives in Finance, Controlling, Banking (Master's Studies: Business and Economics) Specialization Module: Areas of Specialization in International and/or Monetary Economics (Master's Studies: International and Monetary Economics) |
| Assessment format | exam |
| Assessment details | The course is worth 6 ECTS credit points. Grading is based on a 90-minutes written exam. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration, dereg: cancel course registration |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, best attempt counts |
| Scale | 1-6 0,1 |
| Repeated registration | one repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics , studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Faculty of Business and Economics |