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EIG3001 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
3 Credits

Pre-requisite None

Learning At the end of the course, students are able to:
Outcomes
1. Explain the basic concepts and theories in international finance and open-economy
macroeconomics.
2. Identify the issues in international finance.
3. Analyze issues in international finance using related theories.

Synopsis This course discuss concepts and theories in several topics such as balance of payment,
foreign exchange market and risks, exchange rate determination, price and income
adjustment mechanisms with flexible and fixed exchange rate, open macroeconomics
theories and policies and international monetary systems.

Medium of English
Instruction

Assessment Continuous Assessment : 50%
Weightage Final Examination : 50%

EIG3002 FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
3 Credits

Pre-requisite Passed EIG2004 Financial Economics

Learning At the end of the course, students are able to:
Outcomes
1. Recognize mathematical techniques in finance.
2. Explain financial theory using mathematics.
3. Perform appropriate mathematical techniques to solve financial problems.

Synopsis This course will be focusing on the mathematical analysis of investment emphasizing the
time value of money, rates of return for investment cash-flow sequences, utility functions,
stochastic processes, mean–variance analysis, portfolio selection, hedging strategies,
the capital assets pricing model, and the Black-Scholes theory of options.

Medium of English
Instruction

Assessment Continuous Assessment : 60%
Weightage Final Examination : 40%