Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide an analytical and critical framework of the legal and financial profiles of the protection of savings, with reference to the governance of companies and financial markets, in Italy and at European and international level.

The course (module II) aims at developing skills and competences in identifying, analysing and managing/solving the conflicts of interest in financial sector and in the governance of a firm. Specifically, leaving from the recent corporate scandals, we will analyse a definition pattern of interest conflict typologies, the reasons and conflict implications of agency relationships “principal-agent” and “principal-principal”, the conflicts in financial sector and in the gate-keepers infrastructure; therefore, the respective causes and tools of preventing/solving will be analysed and discussed. Finally, the worst practices in valuation will be analysed, linking them with conflicts that could be involved in IPOs (mainly underpricing) and in M&As and be exploited in valuation practices.