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Course: 2025/2026

Information in Markets and Market Microstructure

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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: 2º

Semester: 1º

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.

Learning Outcomes

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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/test 40
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Course evaluation will be done via exams and class discussion, and problems sets 
The assessment system for the retake is the same as the regular one

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.