The objective of the financial theory course is to familiarise students with the organisation of financial markets and the investment products that are dealt with in them: bonds, shares, derivatives.
30 hours of lectures - occasional applications in the form of exercises in class or in the computer room (to be specified as and when required) The teaching materials are as follows - Reference manuals: * Bodie, Z., Kane, A. and A.J., Marcus, Investments, MacGrawHill, 9th ed. 2010 [BKM] * Brealey, R.A., and S. C. Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill, 7th ed. 2002, translated into French by Pearson: Principes de Gestion Financière [BMA]; The chapters referenced in the syllabus/transparencies are those of these two books identified by the codes [BKM] and [BMA] respectively. - slides (made available on Webcampus as the course progresses); - corrected exercises (made available on Webcampus as the course progresses)
Closed book examination, based on (i) course questions and (ii) application exercises similar to those covered in class.