GRA 6546 Credit Markets and Financial Crises - RESIT EXAMINATION AUTUMN 2017

GRA 6546 Credit Markets and Financial Crises - RESIT EXAMINATION AUTUMN 2017

Course code: 
GRA 6546
Department: 
Finance
Credits: 
6
Course coordinator: 
Charlotte Østergaard
Course name in Norwegian: 
Credit Markets and Financial Crises - RESIT EXAMINATION AUTUMN 2017
Product category: 
Master
Portfolio: 
MSc in Finance
Semester: 
2017 Autumn
Active status: 
Re-sit exam
Level of study: 
Master
Resit exam semesters: 
2017 Autumn
Resit exam info

This course will not run autumn 2017 due to sabbatical, but will run again autumn 2018.

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.

Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

This course seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of credit markets and some of the important crises that has occurred in the last century (esp. 1930s and the 2007 financial crisis). It covers the financial instrument and institutions that exist and operate in credit markets, with a special emphasis on the role of banks, but will also look at institutions such as pension, mutual and hedge funds and discuss the linkages that exist between these funds and banks. Credit provision in the form of bank lending, securitization and structured financial products such as credit derivatives and CDOs will be studied. The role of government subsidies and regulations, and how these may impact market participants incentives and behaviour will also be adressed.
The course contains a mix of theory, institutional aspects and case studies of actual events.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge
  1. To get an overview of existing institutional arrangements and structures.
  2. To study the linkages that exist between different institutions operating in credit markets.
  3. To understand how the existence of asymmetric information in credit market make these markets different from other markets and gives rise to moral hazard and adverse selection problems that affect participants' incentives and behaviours.
  4. To understand how the design of financial contracts may mitigate or enlarge risks and problems arising from asymmetric information.
  5. To understand how government subsidies and regulations may mitigate or enlarge risks and problems arising from asymmetric information.
  6. To understand how financial shocks may be transmitted to the real sector.
Learning outcomes - Skills
  1. To identify situations where asymmetric information gives rise to adverse selection or moral hazard.
  2. To analyse how adverse selection and moral hazard affects market participants incentives and actions.
  3. Provide students will the skills to ability to analyse and discuss the above in a structured and "precise" manner.
Learning Outcome - Reflection
  1. To give students sense of the complexity of recent developments in credit markets.
  2. To understand the trade-offs associated with government intervention in credit markets.
Course content

(Details may vary from year to year)

  1. Credit markets and asymmetric information
  2. Banks and other financial intermediaries
  3. Securitization and credit derivatives
  4. Government subsidies and regulations
  5. Case study(ies)
Learning process and requirements to students

Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on It's learning or text book.

This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course start.

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Qualifications

All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Weight: 
10
Grouping: 
Group (1 - 5)
Duration: 
2 Week(s)
Comment: 
Case 1

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.
Exam code: 
GRA65461
Grading scale: 
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Weight: 
10
Grouping: 
Group (1 - 5)
Duration: 
2 Week(s)
Comment: 
Case 2

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.
Exam code: 
GRA65461
Grading scale: 
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Weight: 
10
Grouping: 
Group (1 - 5)
Duration: 
2 Week(s)
Comment: 
Essay

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.
Exam code: 
GRA65461
Grading scale: 
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Weight: 
10
Grouping: 
Group (1 - 5)
Duration: 
2 Week(s)
Comment: 
Case 3

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.
Exam code: 
GRA65461
Grading scale: 
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Invigilation
Weight: 
60
Grouping: 
Individual
Support materials: 
  • BI-approved exam calculator
  • Simple calculator
  • Bilingual dictionary
Duration: 
3 Hour(s)
Comment: 
Written examination with supervision.

The resit written examination will be in essay format (not 4 standard questions).

Only a written exam will be arranged as resit exam in autumn 2017. The group assignments cannot be retaken.
The written exam will account for 60 % of the final grade if the student performed well in the group assignments (40 %) that were handed in when the course was run.
The written exam will account for 100 % of the final grade if this is in the best interest of the student.
Exam code: 
GRA65461
Grading scale: 
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Exam organisation: 
Continuous assessment
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Total weight: 
100
Sum workload: 
0

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.