23698 - Ethical Finance

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Social Economy (cod. 8489)

Learning outcomes

The objective of the course is to deal with the ethics approach to the financial market in all its aspects: banking and financial management. At the end of the course the student is able: to know the risks and the peculiarities which the financial activity must face with regards to ethics; to have a general knowledge of the literature dealing with the ethical behavior of the banker and of the trader; to analyze the ethical challenges which the modern society must face with regards to the financial relationships.

Course contents

The crisis of the modern economic system

Conceptualizations of business ethics

Historical foundations and evolution of business ethics

Ethics funds

Business ethics in Italy

Corporate governance

Stakeholders' role in business ethics

The role of codes of ethics in developing an effective ethics program

The role of corporate governance in structuring ethics

Insider trading

Readings/Bibliography

Reading material will be distributed during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Practical exercises

Case studies

Assessment methods

Valuation is based on a written exam.

Office hours

See the website of Barbara Petracci