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Giuliano Curatola, Marco Pagano, Tommaso Oliviero, and Ettore Panetti

This specialization is intended for students who want to gain a deep understanding of the functioning of financial markets and the role played by financial intermediaries. Students will analyze the role of liquidity in securities markets, and they will understand how security trading is organized and regulated and how it has been reshaped by algorithmic and high frequency trading, and how the trading process affects the formation of asset prices. They will also learn how to apply basic techniques to price derivatives and use them for hedging or speculative purposes. Finally, they will study how banking crises arise and propagate to the real economy, what regulators can do to prevent them, and how the “Fintech revolution” is shaping the banking industry.

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Three courses

Market Microstructure

Within this course, you will learn about price formation and liquidity in securities markets. You will discover the determinants of market depth and security trading.

Derivatives

This course covers standard derivative pricing models, including discrete time and continuous time techniques. It also introduces numerical option pricing, particularly the Monte Carlo Method. Students will gain knowledge of financial markets, security pricing, arbitrage, interest rates, risk, and return.

Financial Intermediation

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By taking this course, students will learn the role of financial intermediaries in modern economies, their vital role to finance investments, and the sources of risk associated with such intermediation activity.

Learning objectives

  • The role played by financial intermediaries
  • The role of liquidity in securities markets
  • Key techniques to price derivatives
  • The impact of high-frequency trading on security markets

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