Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide a basic knowledge to understand the role of money and the functioning of financial markets in advanced economic systems, providing also the tools for future autonomous learning by students. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the functions and characteristics of financial intermediaries, of the most popular financial instruments and of the mechanism for forming the prices of financial assets. With reference to the Dublin descriptors, particualr attention will be devoted to developing in the students autonomy of judgment with respect to the current debate. As part of the general objectives of the degree program, the course allows students to acquire an autonomous ability to analyze and recognize the mechanisms that guide the evolution of the financial system in which companies operate, and the ability to transfer the results of personal analysis to the group of people with whom they will interact in their work.