Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Economics and Business |
Grao en Economía |
Subjects |
Monetary Policy and Financial Systems |
Contents |
|
|
|
Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Monetary Policy and Financial Systems | Code | 611G01024 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
|
|||||||||||||
Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
|
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 |
|