Courses Master Display 2020-2021
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| Course title | Financial Markets and Institutions (EFR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course code | EBC4077 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ECTS credits | 6,5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assessment | Whole/Half Grades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Level | Advanced | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator |
Jaap Bos For more information: j.bos@maastrichtuniversity.nl |
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| Language of instruction | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goals |
This course provides a more formal background to financial system architecture, the industrial organisation of financial institutions and financial system regulation
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| Description |
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) USED IN THIS COURSE IS WITH RESERVATION. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS BASED ON THE COURSE SETUP PRIOR TO THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE CRISIS, COURSE COORDINATORS MAY BE FORCED TO CHANGE THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS USED. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING/ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS. This course provides an introduction to research in Financial Economics. We start with the foundations of the industrial organisation of financial institutions, and build on that to introduce a range of topics including competition, the choice between market and bank financing, financial innovation and regulation and crises.
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| Literature |
* Freixas, X and J-C. Rochet (1998). Microeconomics of Banking, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press;
* Dewatripont, M. and J. Tirole (1995). The Prudential Regulation of Banks. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. * Bikker, J.A., J.W.B. Bos (2008), Bank Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Framework for the Analysis of Profitability, Competition and Efficiency, Routledge, New York, U.S.A. Selected Articles |
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| Prerequisites |
only for Research Master and Phd students
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| Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | PBL / Presentation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | Final Paper / Written Exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Evaluation in previous academic year | For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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