Digitalization in Finance

Course Director: Ye Zhang

This course is aimed at those who are interested in FinTech, and useful for finance executives, government officers, entrepreneurs, consumers, researchers, and investors of FinTech. The proliferation of Fintech Ecosystems is rapidly and profoundly reshaping conventional financial service systems. Therefore, understanding this topic is important to our young generations whether they specialize in finance or not.

The course has the following two goals. First, we are devoted to basic concepts and business models in the area of Fintech, including crypotocurrencies. In addition to providing students with a broad understanding of challenges, issues, and potential shortcomings of traditional business models, we want students to get exposed to tech-based, innovative solutions that precisely address and solve these issues. Second, we will introduce some methods used by data science and the frontier research of Fintech. Importantly, you will be able to have a foundation in FinTech and understand the frontier of the current FinTech research work.

The course is helpful to those who are preparing for their thesis in Fintech.

The course will consist of lectures and case discussions, for which students should prepare carefully. The course aims to provide students with an understanding both of sound theoretical principles of FinTech and of the practical environment in which FinTech is applied.

Note: this is an elective course related to finance.

Course administrator: Anneli.Sandbladh@hhs.se

• Econometrics or equivalent (OLS, etc)
• I will assign some optional problem sets that require the use of coding. Feel free to use any of the following coding languages for these tasks: R, Python, or STATA

The final exam is a closed-book exam.

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