Module code: AFE7035-A
1. Analyse the role and functioning of international banks. 2. Assess the environment governing international banking, as well as critically evaluate the role of central banks. 3. Provide sound knowledge of both theoretical and applied aspects of banking, in order to provide solid grounding in banking theory for finance and banking professionals. 4. Enable you to evaluate critical issues faced by banks and managers within the banking industry, as well as the challenges faced by central bankers. 5. Employ a range of applications aimed to provide a feel for key factors influencing 'real world'
Economic principles in banking (including financial intermediation; the role of information and credit rationing; Banking theory and credit creation; Bank runs and deposit insurance); Market structure and the role of competition (including measures of concentration in banking; concentration and profitability); Efficiency in the banking industry (including Measurement of efficiency in banking; Measuring output and performance in the banking industry); Bank consolidation in a comparative context (arms length financial systems vs. relationship based financial systems; mergers and acquisitions in banking; international empirical evidence from countries such as the US, UK, Germany, India and mainland Europe; banking supervision and regulation (including rationale for banking regulation and supervision; bank runs and systemic risk; domestic and international banking regulation; deposit insurance; supervisory versus regulatory approach); international bank lending and country risk (including pricing of international bank loans; modelling country risk; international empirical evidence); international banking expansion (including rationale for internationalisation and expansion; Domestic vs. international banks; Empirical evidence).
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