Short Description

Learn about the assessment of risks inherent in the management of financial institutions and the importance of such institutions in a country’s economic development. The effectiveness of supervision and surveillance to ensure the financial stability of the economy will also be covered.

You’ll learn to:

• Appreciate the importance to the economy of its financial structure (markets and institutions)
• Understand and critically evaluate the economic rationale underpinning the operations of banks and similar institutions
• Identify the macroeconomic interface between these institutions and the 'real' economy
• Critically evaluate the importance of regulation and its limits