FIUBAFIT Financial Markets

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Michaela Roubíčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Michaela Roubíčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Michaela Roubíčková, Ph.D.
Department of Finance and Accounting – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Ing. Irena Szarowská, Ph.D., MPA
Prerequisites
None
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Banking (programme OPF, B_HOSPOL)
Course objectives
The course introduces students to the basics of financial markets not only in the Czech Republic, the types of financial instruments traded on the spot, secondary, stock, and OTC markets. Emphasis is placed on clarifying approaches to measuring financial assets, the risk analysis and the basics of portfolio theory. Also, students are introduced to the basics of econometric software through dealing with the issue of stationarity, correlation analysis, long-term and short-term causality.
Syllabus
  • 1. Financial markets and financial market actors
    2. Organization and structure of financial markets
    3. Valuation of financial assets and interest rates
    4. Portfolio theory and Capital asset pricing
    5. Money market
    6. Valuation of money market instruments
    7. Bond market
    8. Valuation of bonds
    9. Stock market
    10. Stock analysis
    11. Derivatives markets
    12. Stock Exchange
    13. OTC securities markets
Literature
    required literature
  • STAVÁREK, D. and T. HERYÁN. Day of the Week Effect in Central European Stock Markets. 2012. ISBN 1212-3609. info
  • HERYÁN, T., D. STAVÁREK. Influence of the Czech Banks on their Foreign Owners' Interest Margin. 2012. info
  • HERYÁN, T., D. STAVÁREK. Interactions between interest rates in selected euro area countries and in the Czech Republic. 2011. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, J. and J. KUNERT. Central banking in the Czech lands. 2008. ISBN 978-80-87-22507-3. info
    recommended literature
  • HERYÁN, T., STAVÁREK, D. Day of the week effect in the European emerging stock markets: Recent evidence from the financial crisis period. Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, 2011. ISBN 1211-555X. info
Teaching methods
Skills demonstration
Seminar classes
Assessment methods
Written exam
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
attendance in seminars 25 %, seminar paper, discussion, ongoing test, course credit test, final witten exam
ActivityDifficulty [h]
Ostatní studijní zátěž95
Přednáška26
Seminář13
Zkouška40
Summary174
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2015, recent)
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