This module will explore the social lives of artworks. It will focus on biographical and ecological approaches to the study of objects, characterised by a...

This module will explore the social lives of artworks. It will focus on biographical and ecological approaches to the study of objects, characterised by a focus on the interactions between people, objects, technology and nature. This approach will allow students to understand artworks through their means of production, to situate both art objects and themselves within the network of interactions art objects occupy, and to analyse processes of historicisation, acquisition, collection management, and conservation as part of a social-material context.

Module Content and Indicative Topics 

This module will introduce students to some of the key historical events which have shaped modern France, as well...

Aims:
The aim of the course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of core concepts and methods of financial economics. The course will also...

Aims:
The aim of the course is to provide students with a thorough understanding of core concepts and methods of financial economics. The course will also offer an introduction to active areas of research in finance that students may consider for further study and independent research.

Course outline:
In particular, the course will focus on asset pricing and portfolio theory. The course is divided into two parts. The first part discusses models in which market participants have the same information. The second focuses on models where market participants can have different information. It also briefly discusses models of behavioural finance. In the first part, we will cover topics such as Arrow-Debreu securities, complete and incomplete markets, mean-variance analysis, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), arbitrage pricing theory (APT). In the second part, we will offer an introductory study of market microstructure, asymmetric information, rational expectations models, sequential trade models, market efficiency, no trade theorems and behavioural finance. We will discuss how these models can help us understand herd behavior, financial crises, booms and crashes.

Suitable for: Graduate students with very strong mathematical skills

Prerequisites: ECON0066