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Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use quantitative reasoning and analyse and interpret data

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the behaviour of stock prices and returns and whether they are forecastable
• the tradeoffs between stock market risk and return and various ways of quantifying risk
• simple models to assess whether a stock price is over or undervalued
• statistical tools for economic and financial data analysis, such as event studies

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• conduct event studies using stock price data
• simulate popular investment strategies and assess whether you can make money out of them
• construct statistical models of asset prices to assess the impact of events on stock prices and whether a stock price is over or undervalued

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.