New Insights into Contemporary Banking

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

Delivered at:

School of Finance

Course type:

Elective course

When:

2 year, 3 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

"New Insights into Contemporary Banking" is an elective course for the "Strategic Corporate Finance" Master program students. The Master students from other programs, interested in the topics discussed here, can also join the course via MagoLego engine. The course covers key trends in the banking industry development and regulatory changes and initiatives, focusing on empirical analysis of their origins, concepts and consequences. We will start with brief review of the basics of banking theory and then examine a variety of factors and events influencing strategies of banks (and their clients), their risks and profitability, as well as determinants of current regulatory challenges and regulatory measures' efficiency under institutional diversity. The issues discussed within this course are also of importance for the corporate desicion-making as for many bank-based financial systems the bank loans serve as a single sourse of the borrowed funds, especially if developing economies or less transparent borrowers (e.g. SMEs) are considered. Most of the trends and aspects will be discussed in a country-case format, the students will be actively involved in exploring particular issues within the frameworks provided by the countries or regions, where these issues are highlighted by the specific banking sector characteristics and/or regulatory regimes. The course is taught in English. The students should take the following prerequisites very seriously, as they are essential for understanding the course materials: 1) Banking and/or finance (at least basic level), 2) English (with the focus on the ability to read and understand the economics- and finance-related academic literature and prepare presentations in English), 3) Microeconomics, 4) Macroeconomics, 5) Econometrics.