37300 - Financial Markets and Institutions

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Moduli: Giuseppe Torluccio (Modulo 1) Fabrizio Palmucci (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business and Economics (cod. 8407)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students know the bases of corporate banking and investment banking with a specific focus on venture capital and private equity investments and on structured finance. Students are able to understand the main theories and practices of international financial markets.

Course contents

It's a typical bank management and financial markets course by addressing all types of intermediaries by explaining the why of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena.This approach focus on financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same.

Readings/Bibliography

- Contemporary Financial Intermediation, 2nd Edition (Academic Press Advanced Finance) Ch. 1-10

- Principles of Finance with Excel - 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press)  Ch. 1-16

Teaching methods

20 hours in class
20 hours computer lab

Assessment methods

Homeworks
Final Exam
Compiter Lab assignaments

Teaching tools

Excel

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Torluccio

See the website of Fabrizio Palmucci