Currículo
Monetary and Financial History MFH
Contextos
Groupo: Management > 2º Ciclo > Parte Escolar > Unidades Curriculares Optativas > Major Streams "Finance"
ECTS
6.0 (para cálculo da média)
Objectivos
To analyse and explain monetary and financial issues from a historical perspective in order to provide students with skills to discuss, historically and scientifically, the role of financial institutions in modern economic growth, the macroeconomic performance of exchange rate regimes, monetary unions and causes of financial crises, thereby giving them the means to explain and compare these issues. To survey the history of monetary regimes and financial institutions in order to analyse their influence on present-day realities; To analyse historically of how financial intermediation has affected economic growth.
Programa
1. The main Changes in the International Monetary System in the long run. 2. Monetary Unions. 3. Topics in Central Banking. 4. Financial Globalization Movements. 5. Financial Institutions and Economic Growth: The banking system and the primary and secondary equities markets. 6. Financial Crises: Institutions and markets.
Método de Avaliação
Comments, discussion on papers and answers to small exercises studied in classes and a final exam. The work on papers counts 50% and the exam 50%.
Carga Horária
Carga Horária de Contacto -
Trabalho Autónomo - 121.0
Carga Total -
Bibliografia
Principal
- The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History: Youssef Cassis, Richard Grossman, Catherine Schenk 2016 Oxford University Press.
- Capitals of Capital - A History of International Financial Centers, 1780-2005: Youssef Cassis 2006 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Conflict Potentials in Monetary Unions: Lars Jonung and Jurgen Nautz (Eds.) 2007 Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart.
- Manias, Panics and Crashes? A History of Financial Crises: Charles P. Kindleberger 1979 Houndmills: Macmillan,
- This Time is Different – Eight Centuries of Financial Folly: Carmen M. Reinhart; Kenneth S. Rogoff 2009 Princeton: Princeton University Press,
- Globalizing Capital. A History of the International Monetary System,: Barry Eichengreen 2002 New Jersey: Princeton University Press.