The Degree Programme in Economics, Firms and Financial Markets responds to the need to meet the demand for skills coming from both the real markets, and the financial services markets that support investment activity, production, and consumption. Moreover, the aim of the Degree Programme is to provide the knowledge necessary for an understanding of the functioning of different markets through the study of the methods and processes used by intermediaries, in particular banks and insurance companies.The training activities will have as primary objective the learning of the logic and the tools necessary for the implementation of the decisions of the different actors operating in the real and financial sectors. In particular, the Degree Programme provides a training course aimed at acquiring the fundamental knowledge to be able to operate in public and private companies, banks and other financial intermediaries.It follows that there is a need to learn the methodological tools necessary for the quantitative analysis of economic phenomena, with regard both to the problem of the measure and to the theme of forecasting to be used as support to the decisions of operators in the real and financial sectors, especially in the guidelines for the outlook.The demand for training for the real sector comes in particular from enterprises, agencies, bodies and professional activities which decide or support development programmes; for the financial sector it comes from banking and non-banking intermediaries, including insurance, leasing companies, trusts, investment funds, hedge funds and numerous institutional investors (such as provident funds). Their role is of fundamental importance for any process of economic growth in an increasingly complex and globalized world, which needs to rediscover the decisive interrelation in people’s lives and in the functioning of economic systems between needs, consumption and production activities.Considering mainly the dynamics of turn over and the increasing importance assumed by finance in situations of national and international socio-economic crises, it is possible to deduce a growing need for specific skills, as are those acquired through training offered by the Degree Course in Economics, Businesses and Financial Markets, for the performance of activities aimed at offering real services to support economic models.