Fin 230

This course explains and analyzes how financial markets and institutions work and interact with each other. The aim of the course is to give a general idea about the financial markets, where funds change hands. The investors, who have funds, and the borrowers, who need funds, meet at the financial markets. Sometimes it is not easy for the lender and borrower to find each other so they need an intermediary institution to finalize their transaction. These intermediaries in the financial markets are called financial institutions and they are very important for the financial system to work efficiently. The first part of this course is an overview of financial markets. The second part of the course is the analysis of specific financial markets and institutions.