ECON 106M
Financial Markets and Financial Institutions
Grades
3.23
Average grade awarded in ECON 106M. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
38%
of the 198 letter grades
D, F or W
2.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 198 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.02 to 3.43.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 9 · 4.5%
- A 39 · 19.7%
- A- 28 · 14.1%
- B+ 33 · 16.7%
- B 44 · 22.2%
- B- 26 · 13.1%
- C+ 3 · 1.5%
- C 11 · 5.6%
- C- 1 · 0.5%
- D 3 · 1.5%
- F 1 · 0.5%
- P 2 of 200
Percentages are of the 198 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TORNELL, AARON reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.33 | 139 | 2 | 42% | average | not teaching it |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS JONATHAN reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.02 | 59 | 1 | 31% | average | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 2 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 14 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before ECON 106M. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ECON 106M in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 11, 101, 102. Enforced corequisite: course 106ML. Application of analytical tools of economics and finance to real-world problems in financial markets to link models students have learned in prior courses to patterns observed in financial markets and to understand when it is that further theoretical refinements are required to better account for certain observed patterns. Development of understanding of potential effects of monetary and regulatory policies on financial markets. Topics include bond market, stock market, foreign exchange market, financial crises, and financial regulation. Analysis and discussion of lessons of subprime crisis and European sovereign debt crisis. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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