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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in International Economics and Business - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
International Economic Policy (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S003746
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/02 - ECONOMIC POLICY
Period
secondo semestre (lauree magistrali) dal Feb 21, 2022 al May 13, 2022.
Learning outcomes
The course International Political Economy ideally follows the International Economics course by analysing topics in international monetary economics, whereas the latter dealt with "real" international economics issues. The aim of the course is to provide students with analytical and conceptual tools to understand international macroeconomic developments, which take place in monetary, financial and exchange rate markets, with special reference to monetary and fiscal policy issues. At the end of the course the student should be able to: - know and understand the main issues in international monetary economics; - applying knowledge and understanding to monetary policy in the short- and long-run, to exchange rate theories, to the consequences of fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes, to international movements of capital, to international financial crises and the policies implemented by domestic and international policy-makers to counteract them; - making judgments with respect to the issues that have been discussed in the course; - written communication skills; - learning skills.
Program
Teaching takes place exclusively in the form of lectures.
Topics:
National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments
Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach
Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run
Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange
International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview
Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience
Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis
Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform
Bibliography
Examination Methods
Given the current regulations and pandemic situation, the exam is a written paper, in which the student has to answer four out of five oper questions.
