1. To enable students to interpret the functioning of the financial system
2. Teach students to evaluate interest rates
3. Train students to explain the connection between interest rates and their maturities
4. Teach students to evaluate basic types of financial instruments
5. Provide students with knowledge about the functioning of individual financial institutions
6. To enable students to explain the role of individual financial institutions in the economy
1. Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions
2. Overview of the financial system
3. Interest rates – valuation
4. Interest rates – changes
5. Term structure of the interest rate
6. Money market
7. Stock market
8. Bond market
9. Financial structure theory
10. Banks – types and operations
11. Bank management
12. Central Bank
13. Investment funds
14. Insurance companies
15. Pension funds
1. interpret how the financial system functions
2. evaluate interest rates of basic financial instruments
3. explain the relationship between interest rates and their maturities
4. evaluate the basic types of financial instruments
5. explain how individual financial institutions function
6. explain the role of individual financial institutions in the economy
