MGMTMFE 412
Trading, Market Frictions, and FinTech
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in MGMTMFE 412. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
65%
of the 276 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 276 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 3.54 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 43 · 15.6%
- A 57 · 20.7%
- A- 79 · 28.6%
- B+ 79 · 28.6%
- B 16 · 5.8%
- B- 2 · 0.7%
Percentages are of the 276 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, JINYUAN reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 276 | 3 | 65% | - | 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
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Examination of financial market infrastructure and mechanism of price formation and discovery. Through lends of market frictions, development of different perspectives on critical phenomena such as bubbles and crashes, short squeezes, and mutual fund runs. Case studies of FinTech unicorns demonstrate how those firms profit from resolving market frictions and how recent technology changes landscape of trading. Discussion of new implications of these technological advancements in stock market (i.e., high-frequency trading) and alternative markets (i.e., bond market and cryptocurrency market). Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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