Educational objectives The course is mainly designed to provide students with a knowledge of the most important problems involved in the European economic integration process. In particular, students should gain an ability to understand:
- the main factors explaining economic performance of the EU in terms of macroeconomic stability, cohesion and growth;
- the threat to the sustainability of the ‘European model’ coming from developments in demography, technological progress and globalization;
- the implications of the EU enlargement for both the old Member States and the new ones.
- Acquired knowledge is mainly finalized to give a student the skill to understand the targets, the content and the effects of the economic policy decisions undertaken at different levels by EU policy makers. Such skill is mainly functional to those who aim to operate successfully:
- - within EU institutions;
- - within government institutions and economic research centres;
- - within companies and firms operating in an international sphere.
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Educational objectives The course is divided into a module that includes lectures and activities of working groups consisting in the preparation of presentation, analysis and discussion of articles, essays and books and processing of data sets and the use of historical series that combine to form the student skills. In this way the student will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in a concrete way, so as to favor the autonomy of judgment and refine problem solving skills.
Specifically, the student will know:
Understand theories on the change of the bank function in the long run and the socio-institutional transformations that have accompanied them;
Apply the knowledge acquired within the structure of the banking system with reference to the different national and international models;
Communicate and implement the skills acquired in the concrete analysis of case studies;
To pursue and valorize, in an autonomous way, in the course of one's professional life the tools of analysis and comparison in order to have a critical attitude towards the variety and dynamics of the financial models studied and the impact that a financial economic crisis has on the economic system in order to manage it and in any case face it.
These objectives are achieved starting from a clear definition of the economic system that represents the system of customs, rules and rules. During the course, study cases related to particular regional areas will be analyzed: Europe (Italy, Germany, England, France, Spain) United States, China, Japan, India, Russia and Asia.
During the course the aspects related to the relationship between the reference geo-normative context will be analyzed; in this perspective the differences between the Civil Law, the Common Law and, above all, the mechanisms of the Path Dependance that have favored, over time, the consolidation of certain practices and routines will be explored. The course will then focus on the financial crises in history and the theoretical models to which they gave life and the different intensities and the peculiar ways in which the financial institutions have formed in different countries that have influenced the growth and development of a country.
In order to develop critical and judgmental skills and consequently make students able to master different banking and financial models, the course will refer to techniques and tools able to promote students' learning and knowledge; in this direction during the course some activities will take place, such as:
Exercises of a theoretical and practical nature on the issues dealt with during the course;
Presentation of cases studies and related written reports, also with the support of external testimonials;
Business testimonials;
Group work consisting of project work presentations and discussion of papers
At the end of the course the student will have a good knowledge of the origin of the bank and of the forms it assumes in the various historical periods. The student will be able to know and critically interpret the different financial models and the role of financial intermediaries, the role of governance in the various areas and the various financial instruments through the use of econometric models. Therefore, the student will be able to contribute critically and with his own operational capacity to the financial systems that favor the market and to those that, like the Italian system, that of credit intermediaries and their evolution within the globalized context.
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Educational objectives The Course is focused on the importance, within the financial systems, of investment banking activity for the financing of innovation and the growth of corporations. The distortions causing the failure of US investment banks and the limits and risks of financial innovation are also discussed.
The Course analyse the different types of financial operations within corporate and investment banking with a particular attention to the financial problems and needs of firms in their entire lifecycle. In the In In The Course students will engage in financial simulations and analyze case studies in a workshop on “Corporate and investment banking” dedicated to the financing problems of Italian industrial districts. Through the workshop they will have the opportunity to face the economic reality with direct contacts with firms, bank operators and experts while being challenged to think of creative new financial solution.
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