Analisi Dei Sistemi Finanziari 1 + 2 2020/2021

Part one: Corporate finance transactions: types and reasons for Mergers and Acquisitions; Merger Financing; Leveraged Buyouts; Asset Acquisitions; Forward and Reverse Mergers; Takeover Tactis; Antitakeover Measures; Company Spin Offs and Split Offs; Equity Carve-Outs.

Part two: Modern Portfolio Theory; The Simple Diversification; Markowitz Diversification; The Efficient Frontier and Optimal Portfolio Selection.

Part three: Securities traded on financial markets; The main types of derivative instruments; Forward contracts; Futures contracts; Options; Types of traders: Hedgers, Speculators and Arbitrageurs

Part Four: Case studies presented in the lectures

Suggested Textbooks:

Caparrelli F., Economia dei Mercati Finanziari, McGraw-Hill, Milano, 1998.

Confalonieri F., Trasformazione, Fusione, Conferimento, Scissione e Liquidazione delle Società, Il Sole24Ore, Milano, 2021

Brealey R.A., Myers S.C., Allen F., Sandri S., Principi di Finanza Aziendale, McGrow Hill, 2020

Damodaran A., Finanza Aziendale, Apogeo Editore, Milano, 2001.

Hull, J. C., Opzioni, futures e altri derivati.Pearson Italia, 2006.