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GEST-S531

Financial history

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Kim OOSTERLINCK (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

At the end of the course, the students will be able to :

  • Understand what history can bring to finance ; and finance to history.

  • Acquire scientific approach in finance

  • Analyze historical events that bring meaningful insight (speculative bubbles, wars, secessions or repudiations)

Teaching methods and learning activities

ex-cathedra, readings and presentation and discussion of a paper in financial history

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

see reference file: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~koosterl/FINA049.html

Contribution to the teaching profile

The course contributes to the development of the following skills (in Business Engineering) :

  • Adopt a professional and pragmatic stance to work effectively under pressure.

  • Critically analyse situations based on a scientific managerial approach to develop innovative ideas.

Other information

Contacts

koosterl@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Oral exam plus paper presentation and discussion

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

50% each

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