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SSST Course Specification February 2009 (Page 1) COURSE SPECIFICATION NAME OF COURSE: Money and Banking COURSE CODE: ECON 290 STATUS (main, optional, Free Choice): main for major and minor LEVEL: (F,A,P,1,2,3,M) Level 1 UNIT VALUE: 4 credit hours TERMS TAUGHT: Spring term of each academic year Department offering course: Economics Course Co-ordinator: Elma Agic-Sabeta Date of course commencement: Degree Programmes in which to be offered: Economics, Information Systems with Minor in Economics, Electrical Engineering Pre-requisites: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Mathematics Indicate whether a new course or name of course being replaced: New course Total Contact Hours: 90 Lectures: 60 Tutorials: 30 AIMS OF THE COURSE: This course is a general Money and Banking course which teaches students about the organization of financial systems, focusing on banking, and the interaction between financial systems and the macro-economy. In particular, this course examines financial instruments, financial institutions (primarily banks), and financial markets and their regulation. The mechanisms and objectives of monetary policy are also examined. Final lectures include basic interpretation and evaluation of financial performance of companies. Due to fact that book covers U.S. and developed financial markets mostly, the lectures contain descriptions of local financial market specifics.
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COURSE SPECIFICATION
NAME OF COURSE: Money and Banking COURSE CODE: ECON 290
STATUS (main, optional,
Free Choice): main formajor and minor
LEVEL: (F,A,P,1,2,3,M)
Level 1
UNIT VALUE:
4 credit hours
TERMS TAUGHT:
Spring term of each academic year
Department offering course:Economics
Course Co-ordinator:Elma Agic-Sabeta
Date of course commencement:
Degree Programmes in which to be offered: Economics, Information Systems with Minor in Economics, Electrical Engineering
Pre-requisites:
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Mathematics
Indicate whether a new
course or name of coursebeing replaced:New course
Total Contact Hours: 90 Lectures: 60Tutorials: 30
AIMS OF THE COURSE:
This course is a general Money and Banking course which teaches students about the organization of financial systems, focusing on banking, and the interactionbetween financial systems and the macro-economy. In particular, this course examines financial instruments, financial institutions (primarily banks), and financialmarkets and their regulation. The mechanisms and objectives of monetary policy are also examined. Final lectures include basic interpretation and evaluation of
financial performance of companies. Due to fact that book covers U.S. and developed financial markets mostly, the lectures contain descriptions of local financialmarket specifics.
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COURSE OUTLINE/SYLLABUS:
Part I: Money and Financial System 1. Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: An Overview.2. Money: Its Nature, Functions, and Evolution.
Part II: Financial Markets, Institutions, and Interest Rates.3. Financial Markets and Instruments.4. Financial Intermediation.5. Interest Rate Determination.6. The Term Structure and Risk Structure of Interest Rates.7. The Stock Market.
8. The Foreign Exchange Market.
Part III: Banking: Structure, Regulation, and Deposit Insurance. 9. Commercial Banking.10. The Banking Industry: Its Evolution, Structure and Regulation.11. The Economics of Banking Regulation and Deposit Insurance.
Part IV: Central Banking, the Federal Reserve, and the Money Supply Process. 12. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Currency Board principle in BH
13. The Deposit Expansion Process: The Simple Analytics. 14. History of Financial crisis and role of Central Banks.
Part V: Central Banking Policy and Economic Activity. 15. The Tools of Federal Reserve Policy.16. Conducting Monetary Policy: Ultimate Goals and Intermediate Targets. 17. The Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model.18. Inflation Targeting
Part VI: COMPANIES FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE19. Interpreting Financial Statements20. Evaluating Financial Performance
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KEY TEXTS AND/OR OTHER LEARNING MATERIALS:
Recommended Texts:• Thomas Lloyd, Money, Banking, and Financial Markets,1
stEdition, 2006, Thomson-Southwestern.
• Robert C. Higgins, Analyses for Financial Management, 5th
Edition, 1998, (two Chapters)
Additional Reading:
• Financial and Economics magazines and reports, Central Banks Reports and Statistics,
