ECON department

ECON 173A. Financial Markets (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/ECON.html#econ173a

Description

Financial market functions, institutions and instruments: stocks, bonds, cash instruments, derivatives (options), etc. Discussion of no-arbitrage arguments, as well as investors’ portfolio decisions and the basic risk-return trade-off established in market equilibrium. Prerequisites: ECON 100A and ECON 120B or MATH 181B; and MATH 18 or 31AH.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

ECON 173A is a prerequisite of the following 3 courses:

• ECON 103
• ECON 173B
• ECON 174