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Department of Management Sciences

University of Gujrat

Course Outline Spring-2023

Course Information
Course Title Financial Markets and Course Code MGT 418
Institution
Credit Hours 3 Course Level Bachelors
Instructor Information
Name Adnan Bashir Office A209
Email adnan.bashir@uog.edu.pk Contact No. 03338422856

Course Details
1: Course Description
The overall objective of this course is to examine the nature, purpose and economic
functions of financial markets and institutions. The course is important to recognize how
domestic and foreign financial markets are increasingly integrated and that financial
intermediaries are evolving towards a single financial services industry.
2: Course Objectives
 To examine the key characteristics, operations, and regulatory
aspects of depository and non-depository financial institutions, such
as commercial banks, securities firms and investment banks, and
insurance companies.
 To define the various domestic and foreign financial markets and to
describe the special functions of financial intermediaries.
 To understand and recognize the dramatic changes taking place in
the financial services industry, leading to a breakdown in inter
industry and inter country barriers.

3: Course Learning Outcomes


 Recognize the structure of financial Markets.
 Differentiate between different financial markets Understand and
examine in depth various financial markets: participants and
securities traded.
 Explain the trading process of various markets

4: Course Pre-requisite/s
Financial Management
5: Recommended Textbooks and Journals
 Financial Markets and Institutions, by Frederic S. Mishkin and
Stanley G. Eakins, Pearson Hall, Fifth Edition, 2015.
 Financial Institutions and Markets, by Madura, Jeff , Seventh Edition,

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Department of Management Sciences
University of Gujrat

Course Outline Spring-2023


2015.

6: Course Readings:
Harvard Business Review
7: Course Evaluation Criteria
Assignments: 10%
Project 10%
Quizzes 5%
Mid-Term Exam. 25%
Final Exam. 50%
Total: 100%

8: Plagiarism Policy

Material submitted for assessment in connection with coursework assignment must


represent the student's own efforts, and be his / her work (except group work). Brief
quotations from the published or unpublished work of another person may be used, but
must always be attributed. quotations, or close paraphrasing or copying from the work of
another person (including another student) without acknowledgement both at the
relevant point in the text, and in any bibliography, constitutes plagiarism, which is an
assessment offence.
9: Assignment/Presentation/Case Study Briefings
The assessment approach is based on a concern for assessing the quality of the learning
outcomes achieved by the student. The assignments are structured to assess group as well
as individual performance and will involve the evaluation and application of both
marketing principles to a given business situation.
10: Class Attendance and Missed Exam Policy
Students are required to attend all classes in the course. Students who miss classes are far
likely to meet the requirements of the course. A student who misses more than 5 classes
will get zero in class participation. If a student does not attend minimum of 70% of total
classes he/she will not be permitted to take final examination in the course.

Students are advised not to miss any exam under any circumstances. A makeup exam will
be allowed only under very special circumstances and that too only after the approval of
the Chairperson of the department.

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Department of Management Sciences
University of Gujrat

Course Outline Spring-2023


Sixteen Weeks Plan
Week Class Course Contents/Activities *Teaching Method Deadlines
1 Overview of the Financial System Lecture
1
2 Function of Financial Markets Lecture
3 Structure of Financial Markets Due in 8th
Assignment 1 lecture
2 4 Why Do Financial Systems exist Lecture
Basic Facts about Financial
System
5 Basic Facts about Financial Lecture
System
Transaction Cost
3
6 Lemon Problem Lecture, Discussion
Financial Panic
Quiz 1
7 Money Market Lecture
Purpose of Money Markets
4
8 Participants in Money Markets Lecture
Instruments in Money Markets
9 Instruments in Money Markets Discussion, Case Due in 14th
Money Market Case Study Study lecture
Assignment 2
5
10 Bond Market Lecture
Purpose of Bond Markets
Participants in Bond Markets
11 Instruments in Bond Markets Lecture
6 12 Instruments in Bond Markets Lecture, Discussion
Bond Market Case Study
13 Foreign Exchange Markets Lecture
Purpose of FX
7
14 Participants Lecture
Instruments
15 Mortgage Market Discussion
Situation in Pakistan
16 Types of Mortgages Lecture Due in 30th
8
Secondary Mortgage Market Lecture
(Mortgage Backed Securities)
Project
Mid-term Examination
9-10 17 Equity Market Lecture
Offering Stock & Monitoring
Investor
Purpose of Stock Market

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Department of Management Sciences
University of Gujrat

Course Outline Spring-2023


Markets
Initial Public Offering
19 Secondary Stock offering Lecture
Investor participation in
secondary market
Investor Monitoring &
Corporate Monitoring
20 How investors decisions affect Lecture, Discussion,
stock prices Case Study
Stock Market Transactions
Barriers to Corporate Control
Read Stock Exchange from
newspaper
21 Commercial Banking Industry Lecture Due in 13th
Background on commercial week
banking
11 Bank sources of funds
Assignment 2
22 Commercial Banking Industry
Bank sources of funds
23 Commercial Banking Industry
Off Balance sheet activities
24 The Mutual Fund Industry Chapter 22.-25
12
Background on Mutual Fund medura
Industry
Quiz 2
25 The Mutual Fund Industry
Type of Mutual Fund
13 26 Insurance Companies and Pension
Funds
Background
27 Insurance Companies and Pension
Funds
Life Insurance operations
14
28 Insurance Companies and Pension
Funds
Performance
29 Investment Banks, Security Lecture
Broker & Dealers, and VC Firms
Investment Banks
15 30 Security Brokers and Dealers Lecture
Regulations of Securities Firms
Venture Capital Firms
16 31-32 Presentation and Revision Presentation
End-term Examination
*Lecture, Discussion, Class Seminar, Case Study, Presentation etc

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Department of Management Sciences
University of Gujrat

Course Outline Spring-2023

Signature Signature
Course Instructor Coordinator Specialization

Signature Signature
Chairperson, Department of Management Dean, Faculty of Management and
Sciences Administrative Science

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