Checking date: 23/03/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Information in Markets and Market Microstructure
(17183)
Master in Business and Finance (Plan: 362 - Estudio: 69)
EPE


Coordinating teacher: PENALVA ZUASTI, JOSE SEBASTIAN

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 5.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Financial Economics, Dynamic Asset Pricing, Business Economics I and II, Corporate Finance I & II
Objectives
The student is expected to achieve a good understanding of the current issues in asset valuation, the role of information in asset pricing and decision problems, and market microstructure.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1- Competitive market equilibrium models 2- Financial innovation with asymmetric information 3- Asymmetric information and trading (or not) 4- Strategic models and asset pricing 5- Market microstructure AT- Equilibrium and heterogeneity AT- Behavioral finance and bounded rationality
Learning activities and methodology
Instruction, discussion and analysis of current academic papers
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Álvaro Cartea, Sebastian Jaimungal & Jose Penalva. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading . Cambridge University Press. 2015
  • Markus K. Brunnermeier. Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information: Bubbles, Crashes, Technical Analysis, and Herding. OUP Oxford. 2001

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.