CODE 95176 ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 ECONOMIA E ISTITUZIONI FINANZIARIE 8700 (LM-56) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/12 TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW This course will deal with the stages through which global finance becomes independent from the real economy. The complexity of the financial dynamics worldwide and their geopolitical implications will also be synthetically reconstructed. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES This course will deal with the stages through which global finance becomes independent from real economy. The complexity of the financial dynamics worldwide and their geopolitical implications will also be synthetically reconstructed. The aim is to provide students with some tools to understand some contemporary phenomena such as globalization, the critical issues of financial capitalism, the new protagonists and the new forms of mercantilism, the reasons of the increase of crisis and their features AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES -students should grasp the theoretical knowledge that allows them to interpret and understand main financial or geopolitics topics or issues addressed in this course -students should learn and understand both the financial and economic terminology and the technicalities to properly communicate with people, field experts, and scholars TEACHING METHODS Face to face lessons and team working SYLLABUS/CONTENT MAIN TOPICS: -Optimum currency areas -Capitalism: main theories -Money: whence it came, where it went. From currency objects to bit-coin -Monetary systems -The most important crises: an analysis -Big players: Sovereign Wealth Funds and multinational firms -Commodities, utilities, futures -Mercantilism in the Twenty-first century. Germany and China -Neoliberal policies between ideology and reality -The dust of Empire: the offshore finance -The public debt issue -Globalization and de-globalization in the multi-polar world TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD MARINA ROMANI Ricevimento: MARINA ROMANI Room 1015 - First Floor Office hour takes place remotely, please make your appointement by e-mail Exam Board MARINA ROMANI (President) MARCO DORIA LUISA PICCINNO ANDREA ZANINI LESSONS LESSONS START First term Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Attending students: - written test which consists in two open questions (If the safety emergences persists students will take a remote oral interview) -team working and discussion in class of the topics developed by the students Non attending students - two open questions (If the safety emergences persists students will take a remote oral interview) In the summer and winter exam set students who will have failed their exam won't be allowed to take the following exam in the same term Students can withdraw from the exam within 30 minutes from the beginning of the test Any changes will be communicate by AW ASSESSMENT METHODS The written test assesses students' knowledge of topics developed in class and evaluate studens' vocabulary ad their ability to use technical language The target of team workin is to evaluate students' autonomy and their critical skills and team-working competences At the beginning of the group work the professor will present a short tutorial whic explains the assesment criteria Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 10/01/2022 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 11/02/2022 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 10/05/2022 13:00 GENOVA Compitino 03/06/2022 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 20/06/2022 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 19/07/2022 14:00 GENOVA Scritto 09/09/2022 13:00 GENOVA Scritto