Course detail
International Economics
FP-EREiePAcad. year: 2017/2018
This course aims to provide an up-to-date and understandable analytical unified framework for understanding traditional insights as well as the newest findings and approaches in international economics. In analysing both the real and monetary sides of the subject, the approach will help the student to gain and retain the underlying logic of international economics.
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Course curriculum
Determinants of International Trade: The Winners and Losers from Trade, the Effects of a Tariff and a Quota. Benefits of International Trade. Arguments for Restricting International Trade.
International Flows of Goods and Capital. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments.
Prices for International Transactions: Real and Nominal Exchange Rates. Theory of Exchange-Rate Determination based on Purchasing-Power Parity.
Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds and for Foreign-Currency Exchange.
Equilibrium in the Open Economy: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates.
Structure of the Foreign Exchange-Market.
Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience
Formulation of National Trade Policies.
How Policies and Events Affect an Open Economy.
International Cooperation Among Nations – Theory of Economic Integration.
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Basic literature
Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld, M. International Economics. Berkeley: University of California, 2003. 754 s. ISBN 0-321-11639-9.
Mankiw, N. G. (2015). Principles of Macroeconomics. Cengage Learning, ISBN 978-1-285-16591-2.
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Determinants of International Trade: The Winners and Losers from Trade, the Effects of a Tariff and a Quota. Benefits of International Trade. Arguments for Restricting International Trade.
International Flows of Goods and Capital. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments.
Prices for International Transactions: Real and Nominal Exchange Rates. Theory of Exchange-Rate Determination based on Purchasing-Power Parity.
Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds and for Foreign-Currency Exchange.
Equilibrium in the Open Economy: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates.
Structure of the Foreign Exchange-Market.
Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience
Formulation of National Trade Policies.
How Policies and Events Affect an Open Economy.
International Cooperation Among Nations – Theory of Economic Integration.
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Real and Nominal Exchange Rates.
Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds and for Foreign-Currency Exchange.
Equilibrium in the Open Economy: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates.
Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience