INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY - 2
| Official course title | ECONOMIA E POLITICA ECONOMICA INTERNAZIONALE - 2 |
| Academic Year | 2011/2012 |
| Course code | ET3005 |
| University credits | 6 of 12 of ECONOMIA E POLITICA ECONOMICA INTERNAZIONALE |
| Degree level | First Cycle Degree M.D.270 |
| Educational sector code | SECS-P/01 |
| Semester/trimester | 2° Periodo |
| Course year | 3 |
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Contents
Educational Goals
The course offers an introduction to international macroeconomic theory and develops the main tools for macroeconomic policy analysis. The second part of the course mainly focuses on monetary aspects of international economics.
Contents
• National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments
• 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 Intervention
• The International Monetary System, 1870-1973
• Macroeconomic Policy and Coordination under Floating Exchange Rates
• Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience
• The Global Capital Market: Performance and Policy Problems
• Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform
Recommended Reading List
Paul Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY, Pearson
Assessment
written
Teaching Language
Italian
