tailieunhanh - Guide to the Master of Science (MSc) in International and Monetary Economics

Banking activities have a relatively large share of GDP in the . compared to other countries. In this paper the focus will be on the domestic activities of the banks and non-banks. The latter can be defined as lenders, which have their funding provided by the wholesale money and capital markets, rather than by their own depositors. Many banks in the ., especially in the City of London are involved in cross-border activities, either as currency traders, bond and share traders and/or as risk traders in the derivatives markets. Of course losses are being made as well as gains | Institute of Economics of the University of Bern Faculty of Business and Economics University of Basel Guide to the Master of Science MSc in International and Monetary Economics 1 Introduction This guide explains and specifies the program regulations that have been ratified by the Institute of Economics of the University of Bern VWI and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel WWZ for the specialized Master of Science in International and Monetary Economics MIME . This Master s program is designed as a so-called double-degree program . students attend courses at both universities in accordance with the jointly defined curriculum and at the end receive two degrees for the study program that they have completed. This guide contains information about the skills that graduates will acquire and about the objectives structure and organization of the study program. The individual courses which make up the modules described here are listed in the medium-term curriculum that is available separately. Although this guide is ratified by the two faculties continuous review and adaptation of the medium-term curriculum are the responsibility of the inter-university Governing Board for the MIME program. From time to time this committee will adapt the contents of the modules of the MIME program where this seems appropriate in view of developments in the field of science the job market or the staffing of the two organizations involved. The MIME is a university-level study program lasting for three semesters. It has been designed so that the need for coordination between both lecturers and students and the resources required can be kept to a minimum. However the partnership between the two organizations gives rise to considerable synergy effects which can be harnessed in the interests of ensuring that this Master s program is of the highest international standard. The study program is taught entirely in English. The topicality of monetary policy issues