90548 - Introduction To Project Financing

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with the basics of Project Financing and Public-Private Partnership through an integrated methodology, which comprise both theoretical aspects and practical ones (case studies). Topics will be analyzed both on a domestic and international basis. At the end of the course, students will be able to deal with the main aspects of the PF/PPP procedure, to manage the construction of the financial model according to the DCFA, to have a firm grasp of risk assessment and risk allocation.

Course contents

What is Project Finance?

Project Finance Structures

Working with Lenders

Projects Agreements

Commercial Risks

Macroeconomic Risks

Regulatory Risks

Financial Structuring

The Financial Model

Public Sector Financial Support

Readings/Bibliography

E.R. Yescombe, Principle of Project Finance, Academic Press, Second Edition 2014

Stefano Gatti, Project Finance in Theory and Practice, Academic Press, 2018

 

Teaching methods

Vis-a-vis lectures/on-line teaching (if necessary)

Assessment methods

Final oral exam (no mid-term exam)

Office hours

See the website of Renzo Baccolini