Pricing of Financial Assets

Teaching results

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have a thorough understanding, how financial markets operate, especially from the perspective of asset price setting. They will learn methods and models to assess intrinsic value of financial assets and have a thorough insight of their application in individual segments of the financial market.
Students will also become capable of identifying interlinkages between financial prices and economic processes and outlook. This course will make them further to develop their quantitative and analytical skills, in order to apply acquired theoretical approaches in the financial market practice.
I. Knowledge base and understanding
After completing this course, students should be capable of:
• applying the knowledge in quantitative analysis to assess financial asset prices
• conducting a critically evaluating individual methods and approaches to assess the value of financial instruments
• understanding inner value of financial assets and their dynamics in individual market segments
• understanding interlinkages between financial asset prices, monetary policy and economic outlook.
II. Skills and Competencies
After completing this course, students should be able to:
• communicate the key questions of assessing financial prices and their dynamics;
• analyse problems in financial markets critically and draw conclusions;
• resolve financial market issues using relevant approaches and methods and draw clear and useful recommendations
• apply and synthetize knowledge from the field of financial markets.