Course description

The discipline “Macrofinancial risk management” is a normative educational discipline from the specialty “Finance, banking, insurance and stock market” for the educational program “Finance, customs and tax affairs”, taught in the 3rd semester in the amount of 3 credits (according to the European Credit and Transfer by the ЕСТС system)/

The educational discipline “Macrofinancial risk management” is aimed at forming higher education students’ knowledge of a set of approaches, processes, and measures that will allow predicting the possibility of the occurrence of risky events and seeking to reduce the degree of financial risks in order to minimize losses in the public sector of the economy.

The purpose of the educational discipline is to form a system of special knowledge in students of higher education regarding the identification, assessment and neutralization of the impact of risks on the formation of income of subjects of macro-level financial relations.

  Objectives of the academic discipline:

– acquiring knowledge about the essence, types and sources of macro-financial risk;

– acquiring knowledge about the basic principles of risk management;

– mastering the methods of identification and assessment of macro-financial risk;

– consideration of macro-financial risk management strategies;

– familiarization with the global practice of risk management in the public sector of the economy and the possibility of applying modern risk neutralization technologies in the sphere of public finance in Ukraine.