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MBA 650 Global Topics in Finance

This course explores the contemporary issues of finance with a focus on modern financial history. Students will survey the popular literature on topics such as the credit crisis and its history, financial bubbles and stock market crashes, the history of bailouts in the U.S. and other countries, the development and the product of financial engineering and financial innovation, the impact of the Federal Reserve's leadership on the present and the future of the U.S. economy and capital market, the impact of legislations and economic policies on the behavior of the financial market. The topics may vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: Students should have some basic knowledge of macroeconomics.

Credits

3