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Financial Markets

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Course Unit Code154-0511/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle, Second Cycle
Year of Study *
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionEnglish
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
ZME40prof. Dr. Ing. Zdeněk Zmeškal
KOR21Ing. Kateřina Kořená, Ph.D.
Summary
The course provides an introduction to financial markets, its aim is to teach students basic principles and functions of financial markets. This course enables students to understand basic functions of financial system, characterise money and capital markets, get acquainted with basic principles of regulation on financial markets and the role of ethics in financial markets, understand selected types of securities and basic calculations related to these securities, learn the fundamentals of investing including collective investment, characterise trading on stock exchanges.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The course provides introduction to basic knowledge of financial markets, students will learn in this course to understand financial markets principles functioning. At the end of the course students should be able to:
- grasp financial system and its basic functions,
- compare particular financial intermediaries,
- get acquinted with regulation principles in financial markets,
- understand role of ethics in financial markets,
- define money and capital markets,
- understand selected securities and be able to make principle calculations,
- learn investment principles including collective investment,
- recognize different types of funds,
- understand investing in funds,
- describe trading on stock exchanges,
- evaluate primary and secondary markets in selected countries,
- define new global market trends.
Course Contents
Financial system, financial markets
Securities, characteristic of securities
Capital market
Capital market instruments
Stocks
Bonds
Money market
Money market instruments
Financial investment
Subjects of financial markets, their role and responsibility
Prague Stock Exchange, RM-System, Central Depository
IPO, information duty of registered securities issuers
Collective investment
Types of funds
Legislative basis of financial markets
Supervision and regulation in financial markets
Basic ethic principles in financial markets
Contemporary situation in financial markets, the lesson from financial crisis

Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
CECCHETTI, Stephen G. a Kermit L. SCHOENHOLTZ. Money, banking, and financial markets. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019. ISBN 978-1-260-22678-2.
MADURA, Jeff. Financial markets and institutions. Boston: Cengage, 2021. ISBN 978-0-357-13079-7.
SAUNDERS, Anthony a Marcia CORNETT. Financial markets and institutions. New York: McGraw Hill, 2018. 978-1259919718.

CECCHETTI, Stephen G. a Kermit L. SCHOENHOLTZ. Money, banking, and financial markets. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019. ISBN 978-1-260-22678-2.
MADURA, Jeff. Financial markets and institutions. Boston: Cengage, 2021. ISBN 978-0-357-13079-7.
SAUNDERS, Anthony a Marcia CORNETT. Financial markets and institutions. New York: McGraw Hill, 2018. 978-1259919718.
Recommended Reading:
FABOZZI, F. J., JONES, F. J., FABOZZI, F. A. a S. V. MANN. Foundations of global financial markets and institutions. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0262039543.
MISHKIN, Frederic S. The economics of money, banking, and financial markets. Business school edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. ISBN 978-0-13-473420-0.
REILLY, Frank K., Keith C. BROWN a Sanford J. LEEDS. Investment analysis and portfolio management. Eleventh edition. Boston: Cengage, 2019. ISBN 978-1-305-26299-7.

FABOZZI, F. J., JONES, F. J., FABOZZI, F. A. a S. V. MANN. Foundations of global financial markets and institutions. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0262039543.
MISHKIN, Frederic S. The economics of money, banking, and financial markets. Business school edition. New York: Pearson, 2019. ISBN 978-0-13-473420-0.
REILLY, Frank K., Keith C. BROWN a Sanford J. LEEDS. Investment analysis and portfolio management. Eleventh edition. Boston: Cengage, 2019. ISBN 978-1-305-26299-7.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Seminars
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined