Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 39 - Roma 0669207671

Economics and business administration (Academic Year 2023/2024) - Business management

Banking and finance


Credits: 9
Content language:English
Course description

The course aims to provide an overview of the role and the main characteristics of the financial system, also providing an overview of the main operators, focusing the attention on banking institutions, insurance companies, mutual funds and venture capital firms. Moreover, it focuses on the function of the main financial markets, while mentioning the fundamental regulatory provisions of the financial regulation.

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

The course aims to provide theoretical tuition necessary for understanding the role of the financial system, including the banking system, whose main players are banks, other financial institutions and central banks. It also allows students to acquire knowledge on the function of financial markets and on the main financial instruments used by risk management functions of financial institutions for hedging purpose.

Program

The video lessons cover subjects falling into the following conceptual areas:

 

  • Area Financial System
    • Videolessons: 1-7
  • Area Financial Markets
    • Videolessons 2-3-4-5-6-8
  • Area Financial Institutions
    • Videolesseons 9-10-13-14-15-16-17-18
  • Area Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy
    • Videolesson 11-12
  • Area Risk Management
    • Videolessons 19-20
Book

Frederic S. Mishkin and Stanley Eakins (2015), Financial Markets and Institutions, Prentice Hall, 8th edition

Exercises

The exercises are loaded in correspondence of the lessons and are to be considered self-report nature; they have no value for the purpose of admission to the examination and should not be delivered to the tutor. Instead, the exercises have the objective of verifying what are the shortcomings of the student throughout the study of a particular subject. Once identified the gaps to be bridged, the student can contact the tutor who will implement training programs through virtual classrooms, chat and forums, in order to improve the student’s preparation.

Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
Paolo Agnese
Video professors
Prof. Gianluca Mattarocci - Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Roma - Italia)
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