Professional Career Programme (PCP) Syllabus for ... - Keio University

Faculty of Economics, Keio UniversityThe second section covers micro-aspect of finance. By using the computer softwaresuch as Excel or Mathematica, we study how apply finance theory to the actual financialdata. Topics covered in this section include valuation and capital budgeting, binomialoption models. To register this class, basic knowledge about microeconmic and financeis required.Textbooks:To be announced in class.Reference Books:To be announced in class.Course Plan:Topics to be covered:1. The channels of the monetary policy.2. The role of central banking.3. The role of deposit insurance system.4. Financial system: the interaction between market and regulation.5. Introduction to Mathematica (Review).6. Implementing one-period and multi-period binomial option models.7. Valuation and capital budgeting.Method of Evaluation:Midterm Exam 50 %, Final Exam 50 %.Questions/Comments:By E-mail.JAPANESE FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS(PCP)Lecturer Naoyuki Yoshino, ProfessorCourse Description:This course is offered to undergraduate students participating in the PCP programme, aswell as to Master’s level graduate students. The aim is to train students to applyeconomic theory, econometric techniques and economic intuition to the analysis of realworld economic problems. We put particular emphasis on the Japanese economy.Students must have solid backgrounds in macroeconomics, theories of money andbanking and public finance.References:・Yoshino, Naoyuki and Seiritsu Ogura, ‘The Tax System and the Fiscal Investment andLoan Programme’, Chapter 6 in Komiya, Okuno and Suzumura eds. Industrial Policy ofPCP Syllabus 9