Global Finance Course at The University of Tokyo
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
5053: Global Finance
Summer Ueda
This course covers the current state and the effects on the global economy of financial globalization. It starts with a review of the theory of international finance and proceeds to the description of economic agents who carry out global financial investment on a large scale; hedge funds, instituional investors and large global financial institutions. Both the positive and negative effects on world economies of financial globalization are also discussed. In so doing, emphasis is given to the discussion of the current sub-prime mortgage loan crisis.