Courses Master Display 2022-2023

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Course title Financial Product Development: A Marketing-Finance Approach
Course code EBC4113
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
5 17-4-2023 9-6-2023 X X
Level Advanced
Coordinator Joost Pennings
For more information: joost.pennings@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight in the product development process of financial products, and how this differs from the product development process of more tangible products. More specifically, literature on the interface between marketing and finance will be used to gain a better understanding of these processes. Apart from this more theoretical part of the course, there will be a methodological component in which more attention will be paid to how we may try to find out investors' needs or the existence of different segments of investors and how companies may adapt their product development to incorporate such different segments. Students will be acquainted with advanced statistical techniques to do so.
Description
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) USED IN THIS COURSE IS WITH RESERVATION. A RE-EMERGENCE OF THE CORONAVIRUS AND NEW COUNTERMEASURES BY THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT MIGHT FORCE COORDINATORS TO CHANGE THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS USED. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING/ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS.

The course integrates the financial literature on financial product development with the marketing approach towards product development. The course will show that both approaches are complementary to each others and that only by integrating the two approaches the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful financial product development will be fulfilled.
Literature
Hooman Estelami, (2012), Marketing Financial Services, Indianapolis, USA: Dog Ear Publishing, ISBN: 978-145750-774-8.
Prerequisites
Courses and workload are very demanding for all IB Master courses. Exchange students need to have obtained a Bachelor degree in business. Exchange students need to major in finance in their Master. Students are expected to have basic knowledge about marketing as well as about finance. Moreover, as advanced statistical techniques will be presented, knowledge of and experience in statistics as well as analytical insights are required for this course.
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Attendance / Participation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Marketing-Finance
Master Business Research - Operations Research Year 1 Elective Course(s)
Master Business Research - Operations Research Year 2 Elective Course(s)
Master Human Decision Science Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Accounting and Business Information Technology Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Entrepreneurship and Business Development Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Managerial Decision-Making and Control Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Information Management and Business Intelligence Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Marketing-Finance Compulsory Course(s)
Master International Business - Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Corporate Finance Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Marketing Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategy and Innovation Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Supply Chain Management Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Sustainable Finance Elective Course(s)