Monetary and Financial History (2 º Sem 2018/2019)

CFFE (Contabilidade, Fiscalidade e Finanças Empresariais) , EMF (Economia Monetária e Financeira) , FI (Finance)

Objetivos

To analyse and explain monetary and financial issues from a historical perspective in order to provide students with skills to discuss, historically and scientifically, the role of financial institutions in modern economic growth, the macroeconomic performance of exchange rate regimes, monetary unions and causes of financial crises, thereby giving them the means to explain and compare these issues.

To survey the history of monetary regimes and financial institutions in order to analyse their influence on present-day realities;

To analyse historically of how financial intermediation has affected economic growth.