25752 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

Anno Accademico 2023/2024

  • Docente: Massimiliano Marzo
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese

Contenuti

  1. Introduction to the course. Exchange Rate: spot, real, cross rates.Forward and futures.The exchange rate market.
  2. Arbitrage conditions.Exchange rate risk.Exchange-Rate regimes. The central bank’s balance sheet in open economy.
  3. Balance of payments. The ‘J’ effect and the pass through effect. The absorption approach to Balance of Payments.
  4. Economic Policy in Open Economy: the Mundell Fleming model with perfect and imperfect capital mobility. Optimal Currency Areas.
  5. The monetary approach to balance of payments.
  6. Purchasing Power Parity.
  7. Overshooting of Exchange-Rate.
  8. The portfolio balance approach to exchange-rate determination.
  9. Balance of Payment Crisis
  10. Target Zones

Testi/Bibliografia

Pilbeam K., “International Finance”, fourth edition, 2014, Palgrave McMillan

Additional readings will be uploaded on Virtuale

 

Metodi didattici

The course is offered on a traditional in-class lecture: there will be 10 class meetings, each of them is 3 hours-long, for a total of 30 hours.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written exam in presence. Oral exam is an option only for those who really want to show their knowledge. The starting grade is the written exam's grade: according the the performance showed in the oral session, it is possibile to improve or worsen from the written exam's grade. 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Slides, overheads and additional set of notes (copyrighted) will be distributed via Virtuale.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Massimiliano Marzo