730G97 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Nationalekonomi, Företagsekonomi
Risk Management of Financial Markets and Institutions
Active · next start HT 2026
55%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXA1 · 17 Dec 2025 · 20 students
69%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXA1 · 133 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
55% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (20 students), against 72% on average in earlier years (113 students).
Exam
EXA1 Examination
- VG
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
69% passed · 133 students
- 55%20
- 72%18
- 68%28
- 76%17
- 72%50
Re-exams
85% passed · 67 students
- 67%6
- 73%11
- 89%9
- 100%7
- 100%5
- 71%7
- 100%5
- 88%17
- Pass the re-exam: 85% (67 students), compared with 69% (133 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get VG: 27% (200 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 75%4
- 100%4
- 100%1
- 100%1
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
INL2 Assignment
- VG
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 167 students
- 100%23
- 100%25
- 100%38
- 100%22
- 100%59
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get VG: 73% (167 students)
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course the students should be able to:
- explain how financial institutions and markets work, their role in an economy, and why they are considered to require special regulations
- explain different types of risk faced by financial institutions
- identify, measure and manage market and interest rate risks in financial institutions
- from an historical perspective discuss how crises in financial markets are created, and the problems of measuring systematic crises
- explain how regulations of financial markets are constructed and how they have evolved over time as consequences of crises and the development of new financial instruments
- discuss the use of different methods for managing risks in the financial system and within individual financial institutions.
Content
This course deals with the management and regulations of financial markets and financial institutions. The course combines a historical and institutional perspective on financial crises, with practical risk management for financial institutions. The course has both a contemporary financial institutions management perspective and an historical perspective that helps to understand the challenges in the management and regulation of financial intermediaries and financial markets. The course explains why financial intermediaries exists in the first place, what is interest rates, yields and why fluctuations in interest rates are so critical for risk management; why financial firms and the financial sector are seen as special compared to other firms and sectors in the economy. The course provides a deep understanding of financial crises in a historical perspective; how to identify, measure and manage risks in financial institutions. In particular interest rate risk, credit risk, foreign exchange and liquidity risks. The course gives a good understanding of how to run financial institutions such as banks and treasuries. In addition, why countries end up in a debt crises and how countries can solve their debt crisis.
- Examiner
- Gazi Salah Uddin
- Main field of study
- Nationalekonomi, Företagsekonomi