This course provides a rigorous introduction to modern financial knowledge and their applications to the economy and business. In the course, students learn how the macroeconomic and microeconomic factors drive economic policy and financial decision-making, at the same time get a grasb of the financial economic mechanisms using formal models. The topics covered are the efficient markets theory, quantitative methods in finance, risk aversion, portfolio theory, asset pricing models and techniques, behavioral finance theory, an introduction to the economics of financial crises, and investment decisions in the context of uncertainty.