DRE 4025 Household Finance

DRE 4025 Household Finance

Course code: 
DRE 4025
Department: 
Finance
Credits: 
3
Course coordinator: 
Ella Getz Wold
Andreas Fagereng
Course name in Norwegian: 
Household Finance
Product category: 
PhD
Portfolio: 
PhD Finance courses
Semester: 
2025 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
PhD
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

This course offers a graduate level introduction to the field of Household Finance. Rather than providing an exhaustive overview of the field, the course will focus on selected topics, such as economic inequality, wealth concentration, consumption and saving decisions, expectations, and mortgage markets. The course aims at training students to develop new ideas for their own research.

 

Learning outcomes - Knowledge

Students will become familiar with various topics, methods, and data usage in empirical household finance. Emphasis will be on exposing students to the research frontier.

Learning outcomes - Skills

Student should be able to replicate key papers and apply the empirical methods covered to new research questions. They should also be able to identify and formulate good research questions within the field of Household Finance, based on their knowledge of existing data and the current literature.

General Competence

The students will become familiar with the field of Household Finance, with emphasis on recent developments within the field.

 

Course content

The course will cover a selection of recent papers, intended to train students to be able to formulate and execute own research within the field.

 

Teaching and learning activities

Teaching will include lectures and class discussions of recent papers within the field of Household Finance. Students might be required to present and give feedback to other students in class.

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

Enrollment in a PhD Programme is a general requirement for participation in PhD courses at BI Norwegian Business School.
External candidates are kindly asked to attach confirmation of enrollment in a PhD programme when signing up for a course. Other candidates may be allowed to sit in on courses by approval of the courseleader. Sitting in on a course does not permit registration for the course, handing in exams or gaining credits for the course. Course certificates or confirmation letters will not be issued for sitting in on courses.

Disclaimer

Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Submission PDF
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
Weight: 
100
Grouping: 
Individual
Duration: 
2 Week(s)
Comment: 
Final grade will be based on a written home assignment. The written home assignment, with the duration of 2 weeks, can take the form of a referee report, a research proposal, or a paper replication exercise.
Grading scale: A-F (presentations are not graded)
Exam code: 
DRE 40251
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
Teaching
15 Hour(s)
Student's own work with learning resources
25 Hour(s)
Prepare for teaching
15 Hour(s)
Sum workload: 
55

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 3 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 80 hours.