Please note the following credit values:
BSc Course: 4.5 ECTS*
BSc Seminar Course: 9 ECTS
MSc Course: 5 ECTS
MBA Course: 3 ECTS
MBA Workshop: 1 ECTS
Language course: 5 ECTS
*The following BSc courses have a different credit value:
Business Communication: Theory & Practice: 3 ECTS
Managing your personal performance holistically: 3 ECTS
Harmonizing Leadership with Personal Development: 3 ECTS
Mental Health First Aid: 1,5 ECTS
Understanding your personal performance base: 1,5 ECTS
Workshop Body Language for Women: 1,5 ECTS
Intercultural Competence - Fit for International Collaboration: 1,5 ECTS
Perform Yourself! Media and Presentation Coaching: Personal Presence!: 1,5 ECTS
Leading Beyond the Resume: Why Success Isn’t What You Think: 3 ECTS
Money, Banking, and Financial Markets - Q4
Participation Prerequisites
Principles of the Market Economy, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics
Course Content
- The Structure of the Financial System
- Interest Rate Determination
- Functioning of Financial Markets
- Role of Financial Institutions and Financial Intermediation
- Central Banks
- Money Creation and Monetary Policy
- Regulation of Financial Markets
Intended Learning Outcomes and Competencies
Students will be able to understand and analyze the developments in the financial markets. They will learn how prices are formed in the financial markets and what influence central banks have on them. They will gain the competence to anticipate future developments in the financial marktes and to assess risks. This will enable them, for example, to make competent investment decisions.
Instruction Type
Presence
Form of Examination
| Form of Assessment | Weighting (in %) |
Duration of written exam in minutes |
| Written Exam | 100 | 90 |
| Oral Examination | - | |
| Written Work (Individual) | - | |
| Written Work (Group) | - | |
| Presentation (Individual) | - | |
| Presentation (Group) | - | |
| Business Simulation | - | |
| Class Participation | - | |
| Answer-Choice-Exam | - | |
| Other assessment format (please specify): | - |
Literature
Cecchetti, S. G., and K. L. Schoenholtz, 2024: Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: 2024 Release, McGraw Hill.
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| 1/6 | Lecture | Th, 12.03.2026 | 15:30 Uhr | 18:45 Uhr | IP-C-101 Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
| 2/6 | Lecture | Fr, 13.03.2026 | 08:00 Uhr | 11:15 Uhr | IP-C-101 Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
| 3/6 | Lecture | Th, 19.03.2026 | 15:30 Uhr | 18:45 Uhr | IP-C-001 Family Business Auditorium Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
| 4/6 | Lecture | Fr, 20.03.2026 | 08:00 Uhr | 11:15 Uhr | IP-C-101 Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
| 5/6 | Lecture | Fr, 27.03.2026 | 08:00 Uhr | 11:15 Uhr | IP-C-101 Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
| 6/6 | Lecture | Th, 16.04.2026 | 11:30 Uhr | 15:15 Uhr | IP-C-101 Hörsaal / Lecture Hall |
Lecturers
Pisa, Magdalena
Lecturer
Indicative Student Workload
| Self-Study | 64 h |
| Contact Time | 24 h |
| Examination | 2 h |
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