Foreign students graduate courses

The reading and interpretation of Financial Statements as the first step of the financial analysis.

Improve the understandability of accounting information by using the contents of the explanatory notes.

Define the main formats of the Income statement.

Identify, calculate and appreciate the Profitability Ratios.

Identify, calculate and appreciate the Liquidity Ratios.

Identify, calculate and appreciate the Solvency Ratios.

Understand and use the Statement of cash Flows (Hints).

At the end of the course it will be provided an analytical schedule done with the program and the bibliography of reference.
EDUCATIONAL AIM

The aim of the course is to develop student’s ability to analyze and interpret financial statements for the purpose of assessing financial performance of firms, by applying appropriate financial instruments. Attending is strongly suggested.

Specific references will be provided by the teacher.

Italian accounting standard OIC 12.

Italian accounting standard OIC 12, Document interpretation.

Claudio Teodori, L’analisi di bilancio, G. Giappichelli, Torino, 2000.

Ugo Sòstero, Pieremilio Ferrarese, Analisi di bilancio, Giuffrè, Milano, 2000.

Giovanni Ferrero, Flavio Dezzani, Piero Pisoni, Luigi Puddu, Le analisi di bilancio - Indici e flussi, Giuffrè, Milano, 2003.

All texts are available at the faculty’s library. The accounting standard are available only in consultation.

Oral examination. Before the oral examination, student should present a practical application of the concepts learned during the course, by performing a comprehensive financial statement analysis for a company, arranged by the teacher, and submitting a written report.

At the beginning of the course will be provided analytical info on how to conduct the test examination, a distinction between attending and not attending students. The attendance of the course, even if not compulsory, is kindly suggested.

ANALISI ECONOMICA DEL DIRITTO

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW
6 ECTS
LEVEL

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

GIORGIO RAMPA
ASSISTANTS

MARGHERITA SARACENO

web: http://economia.unipv.it/pagp/pagine_personali/grampa/

• 
  Instruments (exchange, efficiency, market failures, choice under risk, crime prevention)
  
• 
  Intellectual property, trade marks, patents
  
• 
  Contract theory
  
• 
  Tort, product liability; insurances
  
• 
  Finance and money laundering
  
• 
  Disputes and class action
  

The course aims to offer the instruments for interpreting some juridical issues, mainly in the private law field, from an economic point of view; in addition, some specific question are presented and discussed, relating mainly to the firm activity.

Franzoni L., Introduzione all'economia del diritto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003

Other reading items will be provided during the course and in the webpage of the Lecturer
ASSESSMENT

Written exam, in addition on demand oral exam

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

GUIDO CONSONNI
E-MAIL:

guido.consonni@unipv.it
6 ECTS
COURSE PROGRAM

Graphs and plots. Comparing distributions. Linear regression. Logistic regression and regression with categorical dependent variable. Principal components and cluster analysis.

All concepts will be introduced and discussed using the software STATA.

Case studies.

To provide basic understanding of statistical data analysis and modelling using an hands-on approach.

Ulrich Kohler and Frauke Kreuter. Data analysis using STATA. Second edition. STATA Press,. 2009.

Additional specific material.
ASSESSMENT

Written project.

Graphs and plots. Comparing distributions. Linear regression. Logistic regression and regression with categorical dependent variable. Principal components and cluster analysis. Forecasting methods and longitudinal models.

All concepts will be introduced and discussed using the software STATA.

Case studies.

To provide basic understanding of statistical data analysis and modelling using an hands-on approach and case studies.

Ulrich Kohler and Frauke Kreuter. Data analysis using STATA. Second edition. STATA Press,. 2009.

Additional specific material.
ASSESSMENT

Written project.

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

GABRIELE FAGGIOLI
COURSE PROGRAM

The course program will be as follows:

• 
  Life cycle of IT and telecommunications systems and relative legal and management problems
  
• 
  Legal profiles of strategic sourcing ICT contracts
  
• 
  Contract life cycle; a dynamic vision
  
• 
  Phase I: Planning
  

• 
  Managing IT and TLC suppliers: a methodological approach with an eye to rationalization
  
• 
  Selecting a supplier: phases, criteria, selection methodology and risks
  
• 
  Pre-contractual negotiating techniques and styles
  
• 
  Roles and responsibilities: required skills and interests for individuals and businesses
  
• 
  Phase II: Development
  
  • 
    Peculiarities, characteristics and risks of strategic sourcing ICT contracts in a project to introduce a new IT system
    
  • 
    Procuring computer programs: from commercial licenses to open source licenses. Characteristics, intellectual ownership, distinctive elements and risks
    
  • 
    Risks related to contracts in projects for introducing new information systems: the most common contractual and project pitfalls. Strategies for preventing and reducing risks and consequences
    
• 
  Phase III: Management
  
  • 
    Peculiarities, characteristics and risks of the strategic sourcing ICT contracts involved in information system management projects
    
  • 
    Techniques for setting up a relationship with the assistance and maintenance services supplier
    
  • 
    Construction of service levels with an eye to business protection
    
• 
  Contract execution
  
  • 
    Operating management of the project and services: negotiable instruments
    
  • 
    Contractual and project pitfalls: the role and conduct of the main players involved
    
  • 
    Handling the most common problems
    
  • 
    Choosing a remedy
    

The course intends to offer students a methodological approach and the negotiating and contractual instruments required to properly govern the life cycle of company IT and telecommunications systems from the legal-managerial perspective.

Beginning with an analysis of the principal phases of the life cycle of the IT and/or telecommunications systems, the consequent management problems and the relative legal and contractual impact of strategic sourcing ICT contracts, the course addresses possible strategies for negotiating between supply and demand, techniques for preparing a contract with the relative service levels, international standards of reference, the most frequent types of pitfalls, how to prevent them and possible ways to resolve them. The final goal is thus to understand how to manage company IT and telecommunications systems with an eye to both functional relationships with suppliers and greater protection and economic benefit for the company
READING LIST

• 
  Chessa N., Faggioli G., I contratti per l’acquisto di servizi informatici (Contracts for the Acquisition of IT Services), 2009, Franco Angeli
  
• 
  Lecture notes from the Instructor. Academic year 2010-2011
  

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST

VITTORIO VACCARI

MARIA LAURA GIAGNORIO

CRISTINA CORDONI

IMMACOLATA MANCO

ANTONELLA VALVASSORI
E-MAIL

vittorio.vaccari@unipv.it
COURSE PROGRAM

The course analyses the basic principles and characteristics of integrated management systems that covers total quality, environment and health/safety issues, viewed from within the organisation. The strategic choices, issues and advantages deriving from the management and integrated certification of such systems are evaluated regarding both the required corporate reorganisation for production and the conformity to current standards.

The second part of the course will examine, within the framework of the corporate social responsibility, the social responsibility report as an information instrument of the qualitative and quantitative results of the organisation. These results take into account economical, environmental and social issues supplying information to different categories of stakeholders, followed by the analysis of various existing structures and their respective contents
EDUCATIONAL AIM

To provide a cultural approach that aims at the integration of quality management systems. The course will illustrate these systems and their correlation with the social responsibility report, also as an instrument for technological innovation.

Textbooks and reference material will be listed in the faculty internet site

Oral examination preceded by a selective written test

Course activated by Collegio Nuovo

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

ROBERTO BORDOGNA

PAOLO COSTA

The course is composed of the following lessons:

[1] shows of cases of architectures in technological and multimedial circle

[2] Methodologies for analysis of cultural process and

[3] natural languages and

[4] process of information of knowledge and possibility of trials of knowledges and information, in joined way with the possibility of multimedial technologies and not.

[5] applications online,

[6] Industrial standard (“world-class”) useful for the realisation of modern sphere of communication with regard to the cross-cultural ambit and specifically the possibility of governance and identity formation process.

[7] Introduction of notions of semiotics directed to the technologies of advanced logic

[8] Logic of the first order and conceptual grafic for the characterization of circles of communication and sharing of knowledges. Analysis of cases of

[9] modernization of objects and for the

[10] expansion of cultural circles, residential and of action founded on the employment of multimedial technologies with finality of enhanced reality

Second formality of search-action in the circles chosen by the students The course foresees a project “ad personam.”.

The course is focused in communication and sharing of knowledge with regard to the multimedial technologies and sharing of information.

More information available on www.colnuovo.unipv.it

INFORMAZIONE GIORNALISTICA E TV CONVERGENTE: IL CASO ITALIANO

Paolo Costa

GRADUATE
YEAR

SECOND
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

MARIO RIZZO
E-MAIL:

mrizzo@unipv.it
COURSE PROGRAM

The course aims at providing students with an up-to-date understanding of the main aspects and trends of the world economy during the 20^th and early 21^st centuries. Great attention will be devoted to the study of the crucial interaction between the socio-economic, political, and strategic factors which played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary history and strongly affected the performances of national economies.

A short summary of the main topics to be covered in the course includes:

An early globalization, 1880-1914

Change and continuity after the wars: prosperity and crisis in a rebuilt world economy

Beyond Western capitalism: planned economies, the Far East, the Third World

Globalization, the New Economy, and all the rest, 1988-2009

From rags to riches? BRICs and beyond

The course aims at providing students with an up-to-date understanding of the main aspects and trends of the world economy during the 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

Marco CATTINI, The Making of Europe. A Global Economic History, Milano, EGEA, 2010, pp. 164-171, 182-191, 218-305

GOLDMAN SACHS GLOBAL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, BRICs and Beyond, 2007, pp. 5-57, 73-181, 225-268 (on line: http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/BRIC-Full.pdf)

(Students will be provided with all the necessary information)

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

ELENA MOLHO
E-MAIL:

molhoe@eco.unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM

Utility theory in a certainty setting. Preferences and utility functions. Utility theory under risk. Von Neumann-Morgenstern model. Risk aversion. The model by Savage. Modern approaches to decision theory. Game theory: normal and extended form of a game. Solutions in noncooperative games: saddle solutions, nondominated solutions, Nash equilibrium.The bargaining problem. Cooperative games: coalitions. Games with transferable utility. The core of a game. Shapley value.

The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the main instruments in decision theory both in a certainty setting and under risk. A critical approach will be developed through examples and paradoxes. Moreover the interactive aspects of decisions will be considered in a special part devoted to game theory. Both cooperative and noncooperative models will be studied and some concepts of solution will be proposed.

2. 
   M. Kreps, “A Course in Microeconomic Theory”
   

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

MARTINO COLUCCI
ASSISTANTS

CARLO CARRERA

DILETTA DIMA
E-MAIL:

mcolucci@eco.unipv.i t

COURSE PROGRAM

The course is devoted to an analysis of the role of administration and economy of means and ways in which is expressed. Common lessons in the course of 6 ECTS and 9 ECTS are about the issues of privatization of public services, of protection of competition and consumers; in the second part (only for 9 ECTS course) the course will focus on the subject of the administrative organization in specific reference to economic activities (public enterprises, public bodies, public corporations, mixed etc.)

The course aims to analyse the characterising elements of the public administration intervention in the economy.

For the 6 ECTS course:

Trimarchi Banfi F., Lezioni di diritto pubblico dell’economia, seconda edizione, Giappichelli, 2010, pagg. 1-183.
For the 9 ECTS course:

Trimarchi Banfi F., Lezioni di diritto pubblico dell’economia, seconda edizione, Giappichelli, 2010, pagg. 1-183;

Greco G., Argomenti di diritto amministrativo, Giuffrè, 2010, pagg. 15-105.
ASSESSMENT

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

MARIO CERA
EDUCATIONAL AIM

The course aims at providing the students with basic knowledge of the regulation of banking system and other financial intermediaries, focusing on the laws regulating their main activities and the control excerted by the state.

Attendance is required.
READING LIST AND ASSESSMENT

More information available on: www.giurisprudenza.unipv.it

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

PAOLO BENAZZO (a-k)

ANTONIO COLLEONI (l-z)

The entrepreneur

The concept of company

Partnerships

Public Limited Company

Jointstock company with shares

The object of the course is the study of general rules and regulations of economic undertakings as an individual or in the form of a partnership and/or a company. In particular, the course will center on the legal aspects of such undertakings, with special attention to profit making partnerships and companies. Moreover the course will provide general knowledge about companies with shares and companies with limited liability.

Possibile choice among:

Written and oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

MARIA ELENA GENNUSA
ASSISTANTS

QUIRINO CAMERLENGO

First Part:

• 
  Historical development of the European integration process
  
• 
  The fundamental principles of Community law
  
• 
  European sources of law
  
• 
  Relationship between European and national legal systems in the ECJ and Italian Constitutional Court case-law
  
• 
  European and national competencies
  
• 
  European institutions and European system of government
  
• 
  The judicial system of the Eurepan Union
  

Second Part

• 
  The issue of European Constitution: the theory of multilevel
  

• 
  The protection of fundamental rights by the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and national Courts; the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
  
• 
  The European citizenship
  
• 
  Non-discrimination principle; the reverse discrimination issue
  
• 
  Democracy in the European Union
  
• 
  Regions and European Union
  
• 
  Subsidiaries
  

This course aims at providing a general introduction to the law of the European Union from a constitutional point of view.

• 
  M. Cartabia, M. Gennusa, Le fonti Europee e il italiano, Torino, 2009
  
• 
  Lessons are available on http://eco.unipv.it/pagp/pagine_personali/gennel/index.htm
  

Written examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

ANDREA BOLLANI
E-MAIL:

andrea.bollani@unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM AND ASSESSMENT

More information will be given by the lecturer at the beginning of the course.

The course aims at analysing the guidelines of employment contracts from a juridical point of view.

M. Magnani, Diritto dei contratti di lavoro, Giuffrè, 2009

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

ANTONIO COLLEONI
E-MAIL:

acoll@eco.unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM

The topic of the course is “Financial market law” (D. Lgs. 24/2/1998 n.58, integrations and modifications of this law will follow).

The aim of this course is to give the studentst the instruments to understand the rules (italian and EU) which regulate the financial market

One of the following:

F. ANNUNZIATA, La disciplina del mercato mobiliare, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition;

R. COSTI, Il mercato mobiliare, Giappichelli, Torino, latest edition.

Oral exam

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

ANDREA BOLLANI
E-MAIL:

andrea.bollani@unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM

The course is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on trade union law (union labour topics and types, collective labour agreement, collective labour conflicts); and the second on the contracts.

The aim of the course is to provide the guidelines of labour law, focusing on the sources of law and the way of working of the specifical matter.

Moreover the course will analyse the nature of contracts and trade union law.

READING LIST AND ASSESSMENT

More information available on: www.giurisprudenza.unipv.it

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

JACQUES ZILLER
E-MAIL:

jacques.ziller@unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM, ASSESSMENT AND READING LIST

The program is available on http://www-1.unipv.it/wwwscpol

The course aims to present the structure and functioning of the european union system. The program is divided in two parts, one focuses in the institutions and the other related to the law and the politics shared in the European Union, providing the guidelines of the treaty, law issues related to Eurpean Court of Justice.

GRADUATE
YEAR

SECOND
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

ELENA DEL FORNO
E-MAIL:

elena.delforno@eco.unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM

• 
  Constitutional principles, civilians and penalties in subject of guardianship of the health and the safety of the workers.
  
• 
  Historical signs and evolution of the italian normative on safety at work.
  
• 
  Principal novelties in comparison to the legislative decree 19 September 1994, n. 626; abrogation of the preceding norms; new principles introduced by the law August 3 rd 2007, n.
  
• 
  Safety at work .
  
• 
  Responsibility and sanctions for lack of compliance of the norms of safety
  
• 
  Organization and management of the system safety with connected close examinations to the normative one in theme of administrative responsibility of the corporate body and to the new property sanctions of the societies from the decree legislative 8 June 2001, n. 231; organizative model and quality norm ex art. 30 del d. lgs. 81/2008; norms Uni-Inail (SGSL) 28/09/2001.
  
• 
  Modification of the penal code and aggravation of the penal sanctions in matter of crimes committed in violation of norms of prevention of accidents at work.
  

The course presents the guidelines regarding the health, safety and wellbeing at work , prevention and management of job risks and jobs evaluation: considerations and risks.

Oral or written examination. The course requires regularly attendance and is recommended to students who already followed Private law.

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

CARLO BRUNO VANETTI
ASSISTANTS

PATRIZIA ROMANO

Business crisis and reorganization; Features of bankruptcy and other proceedings applicable to distressed companies; Details of the procedures of arrangement with creditors before bankruptcy, of bankruptcy, and of extraordinary administration of the large enterprises; Outline of penal and tax issues.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the procedures and of the juridical institutes.

M.Sandulli, La crisi dell’impresa, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009

AA.VV. Diritto Fallimentare – Manuale breve, Giuffrè, Milano, 2008 (pagg. 3-30)

Handouts available on the faculty site

Possibility to choose between oral and written examination.

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

PAOLO BENAZZO (1st part)

CARLO BRUNO VANETTI (2nd part)

ELENA COLLARINI (second part)

The course is separated in two sections, complementary but endowed with mutual autonomy:

Rated society: special statute of the societies that resorts to the market of the capitals, with particular attention to: quotation and delisting; transparency of the orders owners; information and bookkeeping transparency, decisional and gestoria; techniques of acquisition of the control (stock intersections, or.p.to., parasocial pacts ); rules of government, systems of administration and control (legal and statutory models).

Reorganizations and acquisitions of companies and business units; increase of capital by contribution of business units; spin-offs; mergers; leveraged-buy-outs; transnational operations

The course aims at depeen the knowledge in matter of government of the listed companies and the operations of merger, acquisition and spin off.

1. 
   Section I
   

-Chiappetta, Diritto del governo societario, La corporate governance delle società quotate, Cedam, Padova, 2007 (o ed.succ.).

2. 
   Section II
   

- handouts provided by the lecturer (on the faculty website)

Oral examination (section I) ;

written or oral examination on demand (sectionII).

DIRITTO INDUSTRIALE

INDUSTRIAL LAW
6 and 9 ECTS
LEVEL

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

PAOLO AUTERI
ASSISTANTS

ROBERTO VALENTI

European and national antitrust law: the prohibition of anticompetitive agreements, concerted practices, abuse of market power and control of mergers

The course purpose is to provide basic knowledge on competition and guardianship of the intellectual ownership.

Auteri, Floridia, Mangini, Olivieri, Ricolfi e Spada, Diritto industriale. Proprietà intellettuale e concorrenza, Giappichelli, Torino, III ed., 2009: Parte II (I segni distintivi di impresa. Marchio ditta insegna) pp. 57-177; Parte III (Le creazioni intellettuali a contenuto tecnologico), pp. 181-282 (esclusi i §§ 6 e 7 del cap. I; il § 4 del cap. IV, i capp. VI, VII e VIII); Parte IV (Disegni e modelli), pp. 285-307 (escluso il cap. VI); Parte V(Concorrenza e pubblicità), pp. 315-399 (esclusi i §§ 5, 6 e 7 del cap. I; solo cenni del cap. III; escluso il § 6 del cap. IV; Parte VI, (Disciplina del mercato), pp. 403-517); Parte VII (Diritto d’autore), soltanto cenni del cap.I; cap. II, §§ 1-7, 9 e cap. IV §§ 1 e 2.

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

FIRST
LECTURER:

CAROLA RICCI
E-MAIL:

carola.ricci@unipv.it

COURSE PROGRAM AND READING LIST

The program is available on: http://www-1.unipv.it/wwwscpol/

The course aims to provide the instruments to understand the problems of the public international law regarding constitutive elements and system and a brief introduction to private international law.

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND
LECTURER:

MATTEO DELLA CASA
ASSISTANTS

ANTONIO COLLEONI

General conditions of contract and unfair contract terms

Sub-supply contracts and misuse of economic power

This course deals with contracts made by business enterprises. At first, business-to consumer contracts law will be studied, as they are disciplined by the consumer code; then, attention will be concentrated on business-to-business contracts most frequently made in enterpreneurial activity, with a special regard to innominate contracts and contracts regulated by supplemental rules, contained in statutes different from the italian civil code. Finally, will be considered how italian law protects small business operators contracting with big companies (for instance, sub-supply contracts).

Cases and materials will be provided by the professor during the lessons. Students will have also to consult the Italian Civil code and supplemental norms in an updated edition: for instance De Nova, Codice civile e leggi collegate, ed. 2009

Oral examination

GRADUATE
YEAR

FIRST
SEMESTER

SECOND

MARCO MANERA

marco.manera@unipv.it

Didactic materials including case studies will distributed to students.

This course absorbs the former courses of Advanced Taxation Law and European Community Taxation Law.

COURSE PROGRAM
Part a) 6 ECTS:

• 
  Internal fiscal aspects referred to profit and loss items.
  
• 
  Internal fiscal aspects referred to operations affecting the corporate structure.
  
• 
  Aspects of International Taxation Law (in particular: arms lenght, stable organization, CFC).
  

• 
  Istituzioni di Diritto Tributario – Tesauro F. - Cedam Ed.
  
• 
  Corso di Diritto Tributario Internazionale, coordinato da Victor Uckmar – Cedam Ed.
  
• 
  Fiscalità Internazionale – Santamaria M. – Giuffrè Ed.
  

Part b) 9 ECTS:

• 
  The Common Market: origins and development.
  
• 
  European Community Institutions.
  
• 
  Sources of European Community tax law.
  
• 
  Relations between European Community law and internal law.
  
• 
  Main European Community resolutions concerning taxes, in particular the Value Added Tax.
  
• 
  The Directive applicable to mergers, divisions, transfer of assets concerning companies of different Member States (90/434/EEC) and the Directive on taxation of parent-subsidiary dividends (90/435/EEC).
  
• 
  EC Directives:
  
  • 
    2003/48 on taxation of interest payments;
    
  • 
    2003/49 on taxation of interest and royalty payments between associated companies.
    
• 
  Business income in some other EU states.
  
• 
  Some sentences of the Court of Justice relating to corporate participation, in particular the right of establishment for companies and bilateral conventions.
  
• 
  Impact of reform IRES in Italy (Legislative Decree 344/03) on international relations: international consolidated balance sheet, participation exemption, principle of transparency.
  

Il Diritto Comunitario e la sua attuazione in Italia - Carmini S. – Cedam Ed.

Oral examination