Fudan University

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how financial technology is reshaping the landscape of wealth management. The course explores key innovations, including robo-advisors, algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in personal and corporate investing. 

Through this course, students will be able to master blockchain core principles (distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts) and their reshaping of trust/value networks, valuate applications, business logic, and risks of digital currency, DeFi, CeFi, asset securitization, and cross-border payments,  understand China's "technology encouragement, financial prudence" framework and key policies while comparing global regulatory strategies, conduct multi-dimensional analyses of major events (FTX collapse, Ethereum Merge, digital RMB pilot) to develop independent judgment, gain hands-on experience creating and managing digital assets on Ethereum testnet, understanding private key custody, gas fees, smart contract interaction, and on-chain transparency.

This course examines basic scientific knowledge about indoor and outdoor air pollution, as well as global and regional climate change, in relation to human health. The following questions will be talked and discussed: What types of air pollution are there in
indoor and outdoor environment? What types of compounds form the pollution? Can they be measured? Do we know the levels of different pollutants? How about the relationship between outdoor and indoor environment? Is it safer to stay in indoor environment if there is a high outdoor air pollution? Do we have any measures to prevent or reduce the pollution level? What are the health effects of these pollutants? Do they affect our respiratory health, cardiovascular system or even our endocrine systems? How much does the climate change interact with air pollution and affect our health? How are international or national fighting strategies on it?

How to make money in China? How to avoid to losing money within China? While the first issue suits business schools, the latter is a typical law school issue. However, this course stands up in between, in the belief that without the helmet and shield from the legal premise, a business pioneer would risk all the efforts of his innovations, products and business models in the long-term race, not to mention safeguarding his harvest from such business. A proper parachute is instantly and constantly necessary before the entrepreneurship soars high into blue sky. This course applies PEST and SWOT analyses, as well as case-study methods, in the POV of a start-up, to walk the students through the whole business-life, including but not limited to soft-landing phase, the formation of business, the transaction rules, the legal compliance of routine operations, and the dispute resolutions.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of financial management within the global context. It examines the unique roles and challenges of the MNC, the structure of the international financial system, and the dynamics of cross-border investment. Building upon foundational knowledge in economics, finance, and quantitative methods, students will develop the analytical skills necessary to critically assess and solve complex financial problems through practical MNC and investment case studies.

This course introduces advanced empirical industrial organization methods and quantitative research methods on unstructured data. It covers a broad spectrum of models, consisting of both conceptual seminars and programming practices.
 

Through the study of this course, students can grasp the important historical context of the financial development in Europe and America, and analyze major historical events.

We should systematically understand and grasp the main aspects of the history of financia development, as the financial development in Europe and the United States basicall represents the history and direction of the world's financial development. This course focuse on history, not rigidly bound to history, and tries to integrate history, current situation and futur for analysis, so as to train students to have a general pattern of thinking problems, rather than just rigidl bound to the narrow vision of professional courses.

The basic contents of the course include: currency, monetary system, international monetary system; Early banking; The development of banking industry; Financial crisis; Financial supervision, etc. Look for its development law and forecast its development trend from the historical development track of finance; We should draw lessons from it and learn from history.