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Postgraduate Course: Microfinance (CMSE11180)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits15 ECTS Credits7.5
SummaryAn optional component in the new MSc Banking and Risk degree.

Both the FSA and banks are hiring graduates with specialised skills to help them evaluate and manage risks better and this degree provides such skills.

Microfinance is the range of financial products that are provided in large rural parts of of emerging markets (e.g. China, India, Bangladesh). Managers in banks in these regions would wish to have an understanding and knowledge of the structure of the microfiance industry, the issues when making a decision to enter such a credit market, the regulations associated with the industry and the policy debate surrounding whether enhancing supply is socially desirable. This course provides such knowledge and understanding.

The other courses on the degree concern the structure of banking and the assessment of risk essentially in developed economies. This course complements these courses by considering finance to the poor in emerging markets.
Course description A two hour lecture on each of the following topics

¿ Why Microfinance is needed. potential customers. products available
¿ Market failures in credit markets
¿ Group Lending and newer methods of lending
¿ Corporate choices
¿ Structure of the emerging industry of inclusive finance
¿ Managing microfinance
¿ Socially responsibility issues
¿ Case Studies 1 Banking models
¿ Case Studies 2 Financial Models
¿ Case Studies 3 Social responsibility

plus 4 one hour tutorials.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 150 ( Lecture Hours 19, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 118 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 70 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Exam 70%
Assignment 30%
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Knowledge and Understanding

    After successfully completing the course the student will

    understand the policy debate about whether microfinance should be encouraged in emerging markets
    ¿ understand sources of market failure in credit markets in emerging markets
    ¿ understand how certain lending practices minimise moral hazard in such markets
    ¿ have a knowledge of the emerging structure of inclusive finance in emerging markets
  2. Cognitive Skills

    On successful completion of the course a student will be able to

    contrast methods of reducing agency loss in emerging markets credit markets;
    synthesise reviews of research on specific topics;
    critically review policy arguments.
  3. Professional/subject specific/practical skills

    On completion of the course a student will be able to

    comment from an informed position on the debate concerning the social desirablility of microfinance
  4. Transferable skills

    During the course a student will develop skills to

    be able to manage their study time effectively
    have developed ways of efficiently using library resources.
Reading List
Essential Reading for each lecture is given above. Two books that will be frequently referred to :

E. Rhyne (2009) Microfinance for Bankers and Investors: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges of the Market at the bottom of the Pyramid. McGraw hill
(£28.89)

Armendariz de Aghion, B. and Morduch, J (2005) The Economics of Microfinance. London:MIT Press. (£34.95)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsbanking, risk
Contacts
Course organiserDr Galina Andreeva
Tel: (0131 6)51 3293
Email: Galina.Andreeva@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Malgorzata Litwinska
Tel: (0131 6)51 3028
Email: Maggie.Litwinska@ed.ac.uk
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