- Docente: Pier Luigi Morara
- Credits: 8
- SSD: IUS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 8038)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student: - knows the EU and national regulations on business and society, and in particular that relating to joint-stock companies and cooperatives, - understands the fundamental principles of the discipline on business, partnerships, corporations, cooperatives and debt securities. The student also knows how to measure himself with the jurisprudence on the subject, applying the traditional legal interpretation, integrated by the analysis of Law & Economics and Law & Finance, and he knows how to find the sources for his own updating.
Course contents
Commercial law framework. The entrepreneur, the distinctions between the types of business and the related consequences on the discipline. The agricultural entrepreneur and the commercial entrepreneur and its statute. The company and its translation events. Contracts of the entrepreneur, analysis of some types and consortia.
Distinctive marks. Intellectual property. Debt securities and their circulation (outline).
Companies in general.
Partnerships, the different types and related disciplines, with particular reference to the liability of shareholders.
The limited liability company and their function as a hub between partnerships and joint stock companies.
The joint stock company and its specific characteristics: shares and financial instruments and their circulation, the governance of the company and its various models and the functioning of the corporate bodies, the financial statements, the dissolution and extraordinary operations.
The financial markets.
The cooperatives.
Readings/Bibliography
Vella – Bosi, Diritto dell’impresa e dell’economia, il Mulino, 2017
Vella – Bosi, Diritto ed economia delle società, il Mulino, 2020
Teaching methods
There will be testimonies of experts of recognized reputation in the sector.
Assessment methods
Written exam consisting of multiple choice questions.
To take the exam, it is necessary to register through the AlmaEsami application, in compliance with the established deadlines.
Office hours
See the website of Pier Luigi Morara