International Capital Markets

3-0-3 units · Graduate

Provides a strategic framework for understanding the determinants of stock market and bond market prices and returns, providing the tools to make better investment and operational decisions as future leaders in finance. Focuses on how economic forces, international institutions, and government policies determine the evolution of interest rates, exchange rates, and the returns on stock markets and sovereign debt. The perspective is one of financial market equilibrium, and the focus is both national and international. Provides a gateway to subjects in macroeconomics, financial policy, and regulation. Designed for first- or second-year students in the Master of Finance Program and presumes this level of knowledge and comfort with mathematical tools.