Course FB126 · Year I · Summer 2024-2025

MONETARY ECONOMICS

Compulsory course in Finance and Banks, taught by Iulia Cristina Iuga.

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Overview

Lecturer
Iulia Cristina Iuga
Seminar tutor
Iulia Cristina Iuga
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Finance
Field of study
Finance and Banks
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
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Aims

This course presents operating methods specific economic environment and banking.

The course aims provide the students background knowledge to create ability to use language and tools specific to the main organizational structures and banking operations at the macroeconomic level - a process involving money, currency, organizing monetary money supply, monetary policy and its inst

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Course contents

1. MONEY AND CURRENCY 2. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FINANCIAL ACTIVITY 3. NATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS 4. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM 5. EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM 6. OPTIMUM CURRENCY AREA 8. MONEY MARKET. REGULATORY MONETARY EXPANSION. 9. MONETARY MASS, INDICATORS AND MONETARY AGGREGATES. 10. MONETARY POLICY, THE CORE OF POLICY MACROSTABILIZATION 11. THE ROLE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AND CREDIT IN MONETARY POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Learning outcomes

- Ability to identify traits involving currency transactions; - Ability to explain the mechanisms of monetary policy; - Ability to characterize monetary systems; - Ability to present the money market; - Ability to present payment instruments; - Ability to describe the particularities of the money market; - Ability to analyze the role of Central Bank; - Ability to present monetary policy instruments; - Ability to present the calculation of interest; - Ability to calculate monetary indicators.

Assessment

Written exam – 50%; projects during semester – 50%.

Recommended reading

• www.imf.org
• www.bis.org
• www.ecb.europa.eu