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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Economics and Business |
| Grao en Economía |
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| Monetary Policy and Financial Systems |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Monetary Policy and Financial Systems | Code | 611G01024 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| LESSON 1. FINANCIAL SYSTEM: AN OVERVIEW | - Introduction - Financial system: Concept, structure and functions - Financial instruments - Financial markets - Financial institutions |
| LESSON 2. BONDS MARKET AND INTEREST RATES | - Introduction - Bond: concept, types, price and yield - The bond market and the determination of interest rates - Why bonds are risky - The term structure of interest rates |
| LESSON 3. STOCK MARKET | - Introduction - Common stock: concept, characteristics and returns - Valuing stocks - The stock market's role in the economy |
| LESSON 4. FOREING EXCHANGE MARKETS AND EXCHANGE RATES | - Introduction - Currencies and exchange rates: a primer - Determinants of the exchange rates - The central banks intervention in the exchange markets |
| LESSON 5. BANKS AND BANK MANAGEMENT | - Introduction - The balance sheet of commercial banks - Basic principles of bank management - Banking regulation |
| LESSON 6. MONETARY POLICY | - Introduction - The financial system's role in the monetary transmission mechanism - Monetary policy and assets' inflation - The monetary policy in the Eurozone |
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