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970321

Introduction to Mathematics in Finance

Mathematical concepts essential to the understanding of the courses affiliated with the department of Finance are learned. The aim of the course is not to teach Mathematics itself, but to learn basic tools applicable to Finance.

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3

970322

Principles of Economics

This course is a prerequisite course to microeconomics. Thus students learn the following basic concepts: behaviors of a representative firm and a representative consumer, the equilibrium of a market, market structure, welfare effects of international trade and tax policy, externality and public goods.

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1

3

970323

Principles of Economics

This course is a prerequisite course to macroeconomics. Thus students learn the following basic concepts: determination of income(GDP), unemployment, price level, consumption, and investment, Philips curve, economic growth, business cycle, and the effects of fiscal and monetary policy on macroeconomics variables.

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2

3

970324

Principles of Management

The goal of business can be defined as maximizing output by making the use of managerial resources. Accordingly, business management can be applied to any organization, not to mention business corporations. Therefore, students should understand and establish business strategic mind in order to understand the various social organizations in today’s globalized, informational society. This class is aimed to develop well-balanced business mind by studying business theories and cases, particularly focused on today’s corporations.

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2

3

42J115

Microeconomics

The topics of the course include optimization behaviors of consumers and firms, partial equilibrium analysis of markets, market structures, general equilibriums and market failure problems. This course extends and deepens what the students learned in the principles of economics I.

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1

3

42J118

Principles of Accounting

Accounting occupies a fundamental role in the allocation of scarce resources in our economy. The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to financial and managerial accounting.

2

1

3

42J123

Financial Statistics

Statistics is broadly used in social sciences. Financial market is the typical market which shows stochastic behaviors. Students learn basic concepts of statistics and the application skills to financial analysis using computers.

2

1

3

42J104

Financial Economics

Financial markets, financial institutions and financial commodities are introduced in the course. Also the theories of interest rate, capital asset pricing, exchange rate, and efficient market hypothesis are important topics here.

2

1

3

42J240

Investment

To derive a comprehensive understanding of how to make investment decisions, this will require a blend of theoretical foundations and practical applications along with institutional arrangements. The first part of the course focuses on the investment background and the modern portfolio theories. In the latter part of the course, the material is concerned with analyzing securities such as bonds, stocks and managing bond and stock portfolios.

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1

3

42J122

Real Estate Economics

This course studies economic phenomena and activities of the real estate market such as supply and demand of real estate market, utilization, investment and development of real estate, and real estate policy.

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2

3

42J207

Futures Market

Futures market is a very rapidly growing and changing financial market. Basic concepts and characteristics of futures market are taught here and how the futures market in the real world is operated will also be instituted.

2

2

3

42J117

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics is the course of studying the determination of national income and price level. This intermediate course is an extension of principles of economics . Various schools of macroeconomic theories are introduced here. Especially the course endeavors to explain the theories in the context of contemporary world economy.

2

2

3

42J130

Financial Laws

This course deals with the general principles of Civil Law and Commercial Law necessary to understand the Financial Laws

3

1

3

42J224

International Finance

Capital liberalization including complete flexible exchange rate system and free inflow and outflow of foreign capital enhances the importance of international finance. In this course students are taught the topics related to the international financial market.

3

1

3

42J125

Financial Engineering

The objective of this course is to derive a comprehensive understanding of how derivatives markets operate and how futures and swap prices are determined in well-functioning markets. The course will emphasize the practical use of derivatives in risk management as well as theoretical foundations and institutional arrangements. The course will focuses on various financial futures such as stock index, interest rate, followed by swap pricing models and credit derivatives.

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1

3

42J127

Asset Management

Investors are confused by so many alternatives of asset investments. They tend to trust their assets to specialized asset managers. This course aims to educate those who want to be specialized asset managers.

3

2

3

42J227

Introduction to Real Estate

Basic concepts of real estate market and economic and legal aspects of real assets are learned in this course.

2

1

3

42J245

Management Analysis

Financial analysis refers to the stakeholders’ activity of collecting and analyzing company-related data, in order to gain necessary data for economic decision making. Therefore, the primary goal of this course is financial statement analysis, which is a type of quantitative analysis. The second goal is Non-accounting data analysis and qualitative data analysis. This class aims to learn those theories and improve students’ understanding by using specific cases.

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2

3

42J229

Introduction to Insurance

The importance of insurance is growing in the ageing society. This course analyzes the insurance market theoretically and practically. Basic tools to develop insurance commodities are also taught.

2

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3

42J246

Managerial Accounting

The objective of this course is to study concepts and techniques based on cost information, which are useful in planning and implementing organization goals, evaluating performance, and making decisions. Major topics are cost-volume-profit analysis, responsibility accounting, performance evaluation, budgeting, relevant costs, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting.

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3

42J230

Monetary Policy

Monetary policy is the macroeconomic policy which is related to the financial system, the control of the quantity of money and interest rate, and financial supervision. In this course students learn how the monetary policy affects the price level and income of a country.

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1

3

42J241

Financial Management

This course is aimed at helping students gain general understanding and knowledge of basic corporate financial management. The topics covered include agency relationship, risk theory, cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure decisions, dividend policy, and mergers & acquistitons.

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1

3

42J131

Financial Laws

This course provides the understanding of Financial Laws regulating financial institutions and transactions such as banking, securities transaction, future trade and insurance contract.

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2

3

42J242

Analysis of Marketing

This course teaches basic concepts of marketing centered on macro marketing. It also teaches determination of marketing margin and current status of marketing industry.

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2

3

42J231

Financial Econometric Analysis

This course is to teach the students the basic concepts of econometrics and how to apply the tools of econometrics to the real world financial markets. The statistical software SPSS is used for the course.

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3

42J128

Risk Management

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the applications of derivative securities in equity, interest rate, and foreign currency markets within the context of risk management. The course covers the issues of how to identify and measure financial risks and why financial risks should be managed, exploring the usage of traditional tools like forwards, futures, options, and swaps, along with innovative over-the-counter derivative securities.

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2

3

42J234

Option and Swap markets

The objective of this course is to derive a comprehensive understanding of how derivative markets, both exchange and over-the-counter, operate and how option prices and swap prices are determined. The course will emphasize the practical use and investment strategies of options and swaps as well as theoretical foundations and institutional arrangements.

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3

42J247

Management of Financial Institutions

Economy of scale and scope, technological progress and deregulation induced the merger and acquisition of financial institutions and thus their scaling-up and the destruction of past fire walls between commercial banking, investment banking and insurance. The course aims to study the principle of behavior of financial institutions under ever-changing financial environment.

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3

42J248

Corporate Finance

The objective of this course is to introduce the foundations of modern finance theory. The emphasis is on depth rather than breath. Topics include utility theory and decision making, valuation and capital budgeting, portfolio theory, capital structure and dividend policy, M&A and agency theory.

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3

42J126

Laws on Real Estate

In this course studernts learn various laws related to the ownership, utilization and development of real estates.

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1

3

42J237

English in Finance

This course is to make students familiar with the English terms of financial markets. Newspapers, magazines, internet articles and chapters of books will be used in the course.

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3

42J244

Seminar on Finances

Students participate in the course actively by writing and presenting a paper on finance. The topic of the paper includes fincial market, financial institution, insurance, and so on.

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3

42J238

Seminar on Real Estate Issues

This is a seminar course on major issues on real estate problems. By presenting a paper and discussing other students' presentation, students have the opportunity to broaden their understanding on real estate issues.

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3

42J249

Regional Financial Markets

At this course, students learn the role of the regional financial sector in the regional economic development in terms of employment, regional GDP and linkage effect. The focus of the study would be the financial market of Busan. The strategy to develop Busan as regional financial hub is explored at the course.

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