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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2021 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | David Yermack (david.yermack@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course covers digital currencies, blockchains, and related topics in the FinTech area, perhaps the most significant innovation in the financial world since the advent of double-entry bookkeeping centuries ago. The technology appears to represent an existential challenge for major parts of the finance industry. It is now commonly suggested by experts such as McKinsey that commercial banks and stock exchanges may no longer exist, or may become much smaller, within the next 10 to 20 years, with increasing volumes of payments and exchange taking place on a peer to peer basis. We will begin with a study of the nature of money and legacy payment and banking systems. We will then study the emergence of stateless, cloud-based digital currency systems since 2009. Further lectures will explore threats that blockchain technology poses to incumbent firms and their resulting attempts to co-opt the technology into existing business models. We survey related issues including hacking, “smart contracts,” governance, and emerging regulation. |
| Weblink | Weblink |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Solid understanding of business and economics on the BA level.Courses on Bitcoin, Banking Regulations and Monetary Policy on the BA level are helpful. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | There will be an orientation for all Summer School courses in early March 2021. Date and time will be published in January 2021. The online registration will be available after the orientation (first week of March). |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | unregelmässig |
| Datum | 01.03.2021 – 04.06.2021 |
| Zeit | Siehe Detailangaben |
Keine Einzeltermine verfügbar, bitte informieren Sie sich direkt bei den Dozierenden.
| Module |
Kernmodul: Core Areas in Monetary Economics (Masterstudium: International and Monetary Economics) Modul: Interdisziplinäres und Wissenstransfer (Masterstudium: Actuarial Science) Modul: Wahlbereich (Masterstudium: Wirtschaftswissenschaften) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Semesterendprüfung |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | An- und Abmelden: Fakultät |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,1 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ, studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ |