Academic Programs

The Center is getting underway in the 2008-2009 academic year with two academic programs.

• Minor in financial economics
• Intersession course: Financial Literacy/Wall Street today

The Minor in Financial Economics

The narrow objective of the minor is to provide students with training in the conceptual framework, guiding concepts, and technical tools of modern finance.  The broader goal is to provide insights into the large and the small—the macro and micro—of how this framework helps us understand the workings of the economy. On the micro side, the courses  integrate practical details of real-world financial markets and institutions. On the macro side, coursework will address how financial decisions affect and are affected by the broader economy.

The minor in financial economics includes four required courses and two elective courses chosen from the list below. 

Required Courses   

180.101 (S) Elements of Macroeconomics
180.102 (S) Elements of Microeconomics
180.367 (S) Investments and Portfolio Management
180.366 (S) Corporate Finance

You must also take any prerequisites for these courses. Check the course requirements for specifics.

Elective Courses

180.242 (S) International Monetary Economics
180.261 (S) Monetary Analysis
180.266 (S) Financial Markets and Institutions
180.311-312 (S) Economics of Uncertainty
180.336 (S) The Art and Science of Economic Forecasting
180.337 (S) Financial Econometrics
180.362 (S) Financial Intermediation
180.369 (S) Research in Economics of Financial Markets
180.370 (S) Financial Market Microstructure
180.373 (S) Corporate Restructuring

Note: Additional elective courses are under development.

Other regulations

The minor is open to all majors.

You may not take both the economics and financial economics minor.

For economics majors, there is a restriction on double-counting: the two elective courses counting toward the minor cannot also count toward the economics major.

 

Intersession 2009: Seminar in Financial Literacy

Course Dates: January 7-24
(includes New York City trip dates of January 22-24)
Intersession Web Site: http://www.jhu.edu/intersession/ExperientialIndex.html

This course follows the natural capitalization sequence of a company to introduce the main components of the financial services industry: private equity, commercial finance, IPO's, M&A's and leveraged buy-outs, Wall Street research, asset management, and industry ethics. Lectures on these topics will be given by alumni financial experts. The course concludes with a three-day trip to New York City, which will include visits to financial firms and an alumni networking reception. Firms may include J.P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock.