ECON344-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

International Finance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts and issues in international finance. It develops a "tool-kit" of common approaches and applies it to many real-world examples in international finance. We cover topics such as the foreign exchange markets and exchange rate systems, balance of payments, international arbitrage and interest rate parity, exchange rate determination and forecasting, measuring and managing exchange rate risk, international debt and equity financing, currency derivatives, interest rate and currency swaps, and financial crises.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

ECON206 or FINC201 or FINC203 RP: 15 points in MATH or Year 13 Math with Calculus

Restrictions

ECON 210 and FINC 315 and FINC344

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

15 points in MATH or Year 13 Math with Calculus

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 16:00 E8 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00 A2 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00 E14 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Wednesday 14:00 - 15:00 A6 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Thursday 12:00 - 13:00 Rehua 528
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Friday 15:00 - 16:00 A9 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
05 Friday 10:00 - 11:00 Ernest Rutherford 140
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

Kuntal Das

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,363.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All ECON344 Occurrences

  • ECON344-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025