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IPLUSO 22413

Credit Derivatives

Business Management
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    This curricular unit is part of the field of financial markets, modes of financing the economy, agents and traded products, crises and risks and risk hedging instruments.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    Syllabus 1. Why study Currency, Institutions, Markets and Financial Instruments? 2. Financing of the Economy and Financial System 2.1.       Money: Functions, determinants and mechanisms of creation; 2.2.       Financial markets 2.3.       Euro system architecture: Institutions and Regulation 3. Interest rates 3.1.       Training 3.2.       Structures and deadlines 3.3.       Interest rate risk 4. Financial instruments 4.1.       Financing 4.2.       Risk coverage 4.2.1.   Derivative instruments – Futures and Options and 4.2.2.   Financial derivatives – Forwards, Futures, Options and Credit Derivatives
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    This UC aims to promote the assimilation of knowledge and the acquisition of the competences that are listed: 1 Understand how the economy is financed; 2 Understand the role of currency and the mechanisms of creation; 3 Know the architecture of the euro financial system; 4 Understand how interest and exchange rates are formed; 5 Identify different types of financial risks, methods and techniques for analyzing and managing interest rate, exchange rate and credit risks; 6 Know the financing instruments of companies that trade in the financial markets. 7 Know derivative instruments, products and their purposes.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    Mishkin, F.S. (2011). The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, 4th Canadian ed. Levich, Richard M. (2001). International Finalcial Markets – Prices and Policies, McGraw-Hill Irwin, ISBN 0-07-233865-2 (alk.paper); Hull, J.C.  (2014), Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 9Th edition, Prentice Hall  
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Analysis of cases that make it possible to understand theoretical issues and develop critical thinking.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    3
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não