This course aims at providing students the theoretical foundations of a selected set of models in economics / finance, enabling them to learn and be aware of recent topics in the area and relevant empirical evidence. 

Through seminars delivered by financial experts and business professionals on the latest developments in the financial markets, business and current issues, students get to develop their discovery skills for analysing the latest issues in the financial markets.

To evaluate students’ accomplishments of discovery in putting forward their own analyses, and recommendations where applicable, students are required to write reports for the course. Students may expand on what the speakers lecture on for their reports.

The individual reports reflect students’ own analyses of the issues that the speakers lecture on and provide evidence of their accomplishments of discovery. As some seminars are related to current issues with no definite resolutions of the problems, students may provide their own viewpoints in their reports that are opposite to what the speakers would present as long as they justify these views using their own analyses and recommendations. Some of these current issues may include predicting whether a particular central bank will loosen or tighten monetary policy, whether there should be higher capital adequacy requirements on banks, etc.