Course teached as: B001113 - STORIA DELLA FINANZA Second Cycle Degree in POLITICAL SCIENCES AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES Curriculum ISTITUZIONI E MERCATI
Teaching Language
Italian - Seminars in English
Course Content
The evolution of financial centres between XIX and XX century. International stock exchanges between regulation and deregulation. Social and institutional actors of the financial systems. Governments, international institutions and international finance in the globalisation
Youssef Cassis, The capitals of capital, Oxford UP,Oxford, 2007
A series of papers available on the webpage of the teatcher
Teaching Methods
Lectures: 32 hours
Seminars 16 hours
Further information
In the second term there will be a series of seminars given by experts of the financial and banking community and by international scholars in financial history. There will also be a series of movies in order to understand how the financial world has been presented in the films
Type of Assessment
written exam in English for the students with a low proficiency in Italian
Course program
1)The History of Finance. An introduction
2)From Florence to Antwerp and Amsterdam
3)The London financial market: Structure, organization, inter- and extra-institutional ties
4)The London financial market: between rules and self regulation
5)The Paris financial market
6)The other financial market in Europe (Brussels, Berlin, Switzerland)
7)International Relations, finance and bankers around the First world war
8)International coordination policies and weakness of the regulation in the interwar period
9)The reorganization of the International financial markets after the Second world war
10)From the Eurodollars market to the petrodollar market: product innovation or process innovation?
11)The new financial markets in Europe and in Asia and the role of fiscal paradise
12) Financial innovation: just mathematics ? Regulation and de-regulation from the 1980’s till the years 2000’s. In the jungle of the new financial products
13) The crisis: single or plural ? The reorganization of the International financial markets
The programme of the seminars will be distributed at the beginning of the course