Global Financial Markets WSE-EKN-GFM
The subject of the course is the issues related to global financial markets. Students receive knowledge related to the structure, instruments and mechanisms of global financial markets within the financial system and the state economy.
Thematic blocks:
1. the functioning of money - essence, functions, monetary policy - 4h.
2. Global financial system - essence, functions, structure - 3h
3. Global financial markets - essence, structure, participants, instruments, mechanisms, regulations - 6h
4 Financial stability and security - safety net - 1h
5 Crisis and polycrisis - essence, opportunities and threats - 2h
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Preliminary Requirements
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Learning outcomes
Student has basic general knowledge of economics and related sciences and their place in the system of social sciences and relations to other sciences and has basic knowledge of the place and significance of humanities in the system of sciences and their thematic and methodological specificity
Student has basic knowledge of microeconomics and
macroeconomics at the basic level
Student is able to identify factors which should be
take into account in decision-making at
micro and macro level
The student will acquire knowledge of global financial markets.
The student will have the opportunity to consult the article writing process in the second part of the semester.
Assessment criteria
The condition to pass: presentation or research paper
Research paper requirements:
group of max. 3 persons
volume min. 12 pp.
topic: thesis
logical structure of the text
bibliography: minimum of 10 entries
footnotes
refined form and editing
Presentation requirements:
topic within the area of global financial markets issues upon prior approval
group of max. 3 persons
time volume on theory - 15 min
discussion
sending the presentation the day before at the latest
16h lectures
59h analysis of source materials
45h writing thesis / preparation of presentation
30h = 1 ECTS
Bibliography
K. Raczkowski, P. Komorowski (red.) - Polycrisis in the global economy and economic analysis, Routledge 2025
W. Dębski - Rynek finansowy i jego mechanizmy, PWN 2014
A, Sławiński - Rynki finansowe, PWE 2006
J. Czekaj - Rynki, instrumenty i instytucje finansowe, PWN 2009
K. Raczkowski, P. Komorowski - Stabilność makroekonomiczna. Współczesne problemy podziału ryzyka, UKSW 2023
P. Komorowski - Bezpieczeństwo finansowe jako funkcja państwa na przykładzie zagrożenia COVID-19, w: International Journal of Legal Studies, 10/2 2021
P. Komorowski - The institutional structure of a Safety Network of a financial system as a factor of its stability in crisis conditions, w: Economic Growth in Conditions of Globalization: sustainable development models, Vol. II, 2017
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