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Unit name Banking and Financial Institutions
Unit code BEA321
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Business & Economics
Tasmanian School of Business and Economics
Discipline Economics and Finance
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Learning Outcomes

  • LO1: The reasons why different financial institutions have different functions in the economy.
  • LO2: How financial institutions assess, and manage risk using some of the trading strategies and instruments available in financial markets.
  • LO3: How institutions and markets are regulated in domestic, and international environments, and be able to evaluate proposals for regulatory reform.
  • LO4: How monetary policy is implemented in an open economy and how it impacts the macroeconomy.

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Requisites

Prerequisites

BEA220 or BEA286

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

1 x 2 hour lecture, 1 x 1 hour workshop per week. Please check the unit outline for details.

Assessment

Online quiz (20%), Test (30%), Final exam (50%).

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Textbooks

Required

Eakins & Mishkin (2015). Financial Markets and Institutions (Global Edition), 8th edn, PearsonPrentice Hall, Boston

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