SFB12502 Globale markeder og institusjoner (Høst 2006)

Emnet er tilknyttet følgende studieprogram

Compulsory for Bachelor students in International Business, elective for other Bachelor-programme students Obligatorisk for BOKAD-studenter med profilering i internasjonal økonomi, valgfritt emne for andre studenter.

Forkunnskapskrav utover opptakskrav

Foundation courses in economics and finance and computer literacy. Grunnleggende kunnskaper i samfunnsøkonomi eller statsvitenskap og basis IT-kunnskaper.

Undervisningssemester

Autumn semester. Høstsemester.

Innhold

• Introduction; globalisation and the financial sector
• Understanding financial markets: the government securities market, the debt market, the equity market
• Financial intermediaries: the banking sector and nonbanking finance, insurance and pension funds.
• Why and how the financial system is regulated and controlled. International governance - in search for ethical finance?

Undervisnings- og læringsformer

Lectures, group work, presentations, term papers, discussion. Teaching and learning in this course is basically group-centred, with frequent use of web-based information on current problems to be used in cases. Details on teaching and learning are given in a separate note 'Teaching and learning concept in GMI'. The language of instruction is English.

Arbeidskrav - vilkår for å avlegge eksamen

Two group presentations and one individual paper must be submitted and approved before signing up for the final examination.

Eksamen

The term paper counts 50% and a three hours written exam counts 50% of the final evaluation.

Litteratur

Kohn, Meir G. (2004). Financial Institutions and Markets. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. 674 s.

Supplementary text books:

Howells, Peter and Keith Bain (2005). The Economics of Money, Banking and Finance: : A European Text. 3rd edition. Harlow: Pearson Education. 602 s.

Hubbard, R. Glenn (2005). Money, the Financial System and the Economy. 5th ed. Boston: Pearson/Addison-Wesley. 684 s.