Master 2024/2025

Commodity Markets for Greater BRICS

Type: Elective course (Strategic Corporate Finance)

Area of studies: Finance and Credit

Delivered by: School of Finance

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 2 year, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Master’s programme: Strategic Corporate Finance

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The core objective of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of the commodity markets. We’ll use a blend of theory, cases and discussion of practice. Topics of the course include financial markets for commodities, core principles of the physical trading, commodity derivatives and other financing structures used in export and trade finance. The course has been designed to provide a detailed framework for the analysis of the global and regional commodity pricing and to familiarize students with simple hedging strategies. The course assumes a basic knowledge of futures, swaps and options. Though quantitative background is helpful, we will spend our time on the concepts and their application rather than mathematical derivation.