25955 - Financial Economics (Economics of Information and Financial Markets)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in LMEC- Graduate degree in Economics (cod. 0220)

Course contents

The course develops and applies tools of Economics of Information and Incentives for a deep understanding of financial markets and their interaction with the real economy. 

 

It will cover the following topics:

  1. The economics of lender-borrower relationship: Theory of financial contracts, equilibrium and constrained efficiency in credit markets;
  2. The role for and theory of financial intermediaries;
  3. Credit cycles and real cycles;
  4. Liquidity, asset prices and real cycles.

 

Readings:

Jean Tirole, The Theory of Corporate Finance, Princeton University press, 2006 (Parts II and VI).

Freixas, X., and J.C. Rochet, Microeconomics of Banking, MIT Press, 1998  (Chapters 5 and 6).

 

Lecture notes and further readings will be made available.

Office hours

See the website of Gabriella Chiesa