Financial Crises: A Critical Analysis

• FNCE90063
• Contact Hours: One 3-hour lecture per week.
  Total Time Commitment: Approximately 2.5 hours of personal study per hour of class time is require to achieve a satisfactory level of performance.
• 12.50

This course examines financial crises and panics throughout history and the lessons that policy makers and market participants should draw from past events. Crises studied may include the Dutch tulip bubble, the South Sea Bubble, the Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, Junk bonds, the Asian financial crises, LTCM, Enron, and the Global Financial Crisis. We will examine the causes, events, and consequences of these crises on the participants and the economy in general. A particular emphasis will be placed on the policy implications one can draw from these periods: what types of regulation work, and what does not work. -- Course Website

Prerequisites: Entry into the Master of Commerce (Finance), the Master of Finance, or Master of Economics.<br/><br/> Master of Economics students must have completed either ECON90024 Financial Economics or ECOM90011 Financial Econometrics. Master of Finance students mus