EDUCATIONAL GOALS

The course aims to provide students with the tools to understand the main mechanisms through which monetary and financial aspects influence the performance of the real economy (unemployment, Gross Domestic Product, etc.).
The course also aims to illustrate the behavior of the central banks and the outcomes to which they can give life. The inclusion of the effects that these dynamics have on sectoral and territorial systems is a useful link and completion of other economic disciplines such as microeconomics and macroeconomics. The course's teachings are therefore an important step in achieving the educational objectives of the entire course of study: understanding the dynamics of economic activity and the functioning of the modern economy. An important role is reserved for the knowledge of economic policies, their training, their objectives and their consequences.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS

Knowledge

At the end of the course the student will have knowledge and understand the aspects related to money and Finance. The determinants of interest rates and the effects that changes in these rates on the economic system play a particularly important role. The student must also know the main regimes of the monetary policy and the different effect that the macroeconomic policies have in these different regimes. Understanding the main problems linked to inflation, the various types of financial securities and the risks of systemic crises will be an integral part of the student's training process.

knowledge applications

The acquired knowledge can be applied in the financial sector, in public and private companies, consortia of companies, business and social associations, research organizations, government institutions (local, national and international), development agencies for:
- evaluate the opportunity to make financial investments;
- develop mechanisms to cover the various types of risk;
- manage financial investments in different territorial contexts.

Communication skills

At the end of the course the student will be able to illustrate and discuss the role of the currency, the main financial activities and the monetary policy authority in the economic system.