| CODE | 95176 |
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| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2021/2022 |
| CREDITS |
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| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | SECS-P/12 |
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| SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
| TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
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.
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
-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
Face to face lessons and team working
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
Office hours: MARINA ROMANI Room 1015 - First Floor Office hour takes place remotely, please make your appointement by e-mail
MARINA ROMANI (President)
MARCO DORIA
LUISA PICCINNO
ANDREA ZANINI
First term
All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.
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
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
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
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| 10/01/2022 | 14:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 11/02/2022 | 14:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 10/05/2022 | 13:00 | GENOVA | Compitino | APPELLO STRAORDINARIO RISERVATO ESCLUSIVAMENTE AI LAUREANDI 2020/21 |
| 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 |