Department of Economics

COURSE: BANKING Ι

No.: FIN333

Instructor: Professor Dimitrios Vasiliou

Courseoutline:

This course provides an introductory grounding to the theory and practice of banking. The main objective of this course is to provide students with a good understanding of the role of banks and other financial institutions in the financial system, the rationale for their regulation, the ways in which they are regulated, the different types of risks they face and the ways to manage them.Topics covered will include: banks and financial intermediation, bank activities and services, types of banking, central banking and bank regulation, bank failures and banking crises, banks’ balance sheet and income structure, bank financial management, banking risks, and bank risk management.

Textbooks:

1. Casu B, C. Girardone and P. Molyneux, (2015), Introduction to Banking, 2^nd ed., Pearson, Harlow.
2. Heffernan, S. (2005), Modern Banking, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York.
3. Koch T. W. and S. S. MacDonald, (2014), Bank Management, 8^th ed., South-Western College Pub., New York.
4. Mishkin, F. and S. Eakins, (2018), Financial Markets and Institutions, Global Edition, 9^th ed., Pearson, New York.
5. Mishkin, F., (2018), The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Global Edition, 12^th ed., Pearson, New York.
6. Rose P. and S. C. Hudgins, (2012), Bank Management and Financial Services, 9^th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
7. Saunders A. and M. M. Cornett, (2017), Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach, 9^th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.