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BU552H: FINANCIAL MARKETS AND REGULATION (2024-2025)

Last modified: 11 Dec 2024 15:46


Course Overview

This course provides students with an understanding of the financial system by introducing students to the reasons for, and nature of, financial markets and financial institutions, before moving on to explore the need and importance of regulation, investigate the causes and consequences of the recent 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and discuss future reform.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Chunxia Jiang

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either MSc In International Business And Finance or Master Of Science In Accounting And Finance (Sept Start)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course is designed to  

  • To develop students’ appreciation of the role of the financial system and the ability to identify and evaluate the prudential, economic and efficiency factors that motivate the control of the activities of financial agents and markets;
  • To introduce students to the regulatory frameworks of the financial products, markets and institutions;
  • To enhance students’ ability to evaluate the economic and financial implications of the control and regulation in financial system.

 


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 75
Assessment Weeks 9 Feedback Weeks 11

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3,000-word individual essay

 Word Count 3000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionEvaluateDemonstrate the awareness of and the ability to critically analyse the causes and consequences of financial crises
ReflectionEvaluateDemonstrate the awareness of, and the ability to critical evaluate the central issues of financial markets, banking and regulation

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 25
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2,000-word group essay

 Word Count 2000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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3,000-word individual essay

 Word Count 3000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandDemonstrate the knowledge and understanding of financial markets, products, services, and regulation
ReflectionEvaluateDemonstrate the knowledge and understanding of theories of financial intermediation and evaluate the need for regulation.
ReflectionEvaluateDemonstrate the awareness of, and the ability to critical evaluate the central issues of financial markets, banking and regulation
ProceduralEvaluateDemonstrate the knowledge and understand of the financial institutions, and the ability to evaluate its regulation
ReflectionEvaluateDemonstrate the awareness of and the ability to critically analyse the causes and consequences of financial crises
 

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