Security Market Policy Course

Students will analyze and understand the underlying motivations for financial market regulation and the tradeoffs regulators face when making policy choices.

The course in Security Market Policy offers students within the McCombs Business School and across campus an opportunity to learn a general framework – both theoretical and practical – to analyze and understand the underlying motivations for financial market regulation and the tradeoffs regulators face when making policy choices.

Students will develop an appreciation for how market failures and inefficiencies can be both the cause and consequence of regulation, particularly as it relates to capital raising, investor welfare, securities trading, and financial stability.

At the end of the course, students should understand how the legal and economic boundaries between investors, companies, and financial intermediaries create incentives for:

Financial innovation
Market abuse
Systemic risk
The need for continuous regulatory calibration to promote and maintain orderly and efficient markets.