May 10, 2024  
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ECON 486 - Macroeconomics and Asset Pricing


Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Arts
Department Economics
Typically Offered either term

Description
The course explores the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics, using growth, business-cycle and asset pricing theories to motivate a series of data projects that cover the long run and short run determinants of interest rates, equity premium, cyclical patterns of bond and equity returns, monetary policy, CAPM and other factor models. Prerequisites: ECON 282, ECON 299, MATH 156 or equivalent, and ECON 109.