Economics and Finance

Program Summary

Economics and Finance is the branch of economics that has a "focus on monetary activities", in which "money of one kind or another is likely to appear on both sides of the trade".

Hence, her interest is the interconnectedness of financial variables, such as prices, interest rates, and stocks, versus those related to the real economy.

It has two main areas of focus: asset pricing and corporate finance; The first is the perspective of capital providers, that is, investors, and the second is for capital users.

The issue is about the allocation and spreading of economic resources, spatially and over time, in an unstable environment.

He therefore focuses on making decisions in light of the uncertainty in the context of financial markets, and the resulting economic and financial models and principles, and is concerned with deriving testable or policy implications from accepted assumptions. It is based on the foundations of microeconomics and decision theory.

Econometrics is the branch of financial economics that uses econometrics techniques to define the parameters of these relationships.

Sports financing is linked to the fact that it will derive and expand the mathematical or numerical models proposed by the financial economy. Note though that the focus there is mathematical consistency, as opposed to compatibility with economic theory. Financial economics focuses primarily on microeconomics, while monetary economics is primarily macroeconomic in nature.