Business Administration and Management

MARIO LA TORRE

The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills on the functioning of the financial system.
In particular, the course aims to analyze the essential elements of the financial system, namely: financial intermediaries, financial instruments and markets, the regulatory and supervisory system.



A) Knowledge and understanding: students will acquire the basic knowledge on the elements of the financial system and will be able to understand the fundamental mechanisms of its functioning. Specifically, students will develop knowledge and skills in relation to financial intermediation in terms of instruments, markets, intermediaries, rules and supervisory authorities that constitute the fundamental elements of the financial system.

B) Applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to apply the concepts learned to real situations and specific cases concerning the main technical-economic aspects of credit and financial transactions.

C) Making judgements: The teaching methodology is based on active discussion of official documentation (eg. The Bank of Italy Annual Report) or specialized press, that gives students the opportunity to assume positions argued with reference to the issues of the course.

D) Communication skills: At the end of the course students will be able to express the main topics with argumentative coherence, systematic rigor and ownership of economic-financial language.

E) Learning skills: Students will be able to reconstruct both general and institutional topics, and more specifically themes focused on particular aspects of the financial system and financial intermediaries.