Financial Institution Management (FIN)

4260 Financial Markets and Institutions: Three credits. (Same as ECON 4260.) Prerequisites: ECON 3210 with a minimum grade of C (2.0); FIN 3010 or 3000. Develops an understanding of the structure and functioning of our monetary-financial system. Emphasis on the institutional process of financial intermediation in the financial marketplace and the role that specific institutions and instruments play.

4360 Management of Financial Institutions. Three credits. Prerequisite: ECON 3210 with a minimum grade of C (2.0). Development of fundamental concepts and principles of sound institution management. Includes the financial environment, strategy, performance measures, asset/liability management topics, with-in an overall decision framework.

5360 Management of Financial Institutions. Three credits. Prerequisite: FIN 3210 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Application of principles of institution management with a focus on operations, policy making, asset, liability, and capital management of commercial banks and nonbank financial institutions.

6450 Seminar on Monetary Policy. Three credits. (Same as ECON 6450.) Prerequisite: [CON 3210 or equivalent recommended. Objectives and limitations of monetary policy, alternative monetary theories underlying policy decisions and the controversy among theories, transmission channels of monetary policy, alternative strategies used to achieve the objectives of monetary policy, practical considerations in the execution of monetary policy, global linkages and monetary policy, and the effects and consequences of policy decision on economic activity and business decisions.

6460/ 7460 Seminar on Financial Markets. Three credits. (Same as ECON 6460/7460.) Prerequisite: ECON 3210 or equivalent. Credit flows within the U.S. and the global economies, the economic and financial forces influencing the general level of interest rates and the relationship among interest rates, the characteristics of key short- and long-term financial assets, new financial instruments, derivative instruments, global financing link-ages, global linkages among financial instruments and among national economies, and interest rate risk, including the measurement and means of protection.

6730 Seminar on Financial Institutions. Three credits. (Same as ECON 6730.) Focus on the common and the distinctive aspects of the provision of financial services and the management of risk associated with those services. Roles, characteristics, and operation of financial institutions, constraints that these institutions face in meeting that objective, regulatory environment within which they operate, risks they face and the management of those risks, evolution experienced during the 1980s and 1990s, and the probable course of change in the years ahead.

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