Unit ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003823
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Mirella Damiani
- Teachers
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- Lucia Mangiavacchi (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 63 ore (Codocenza) - Lucia Mangiavacchi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. International students are welcome to attend. The teacher can suggest bibliographical references also in English. Answers to the exam can be written also in English or Spanish.
- Contents
- The course is organized in two parts. The first part is made by theory lectures on the following topics:
(i) Theory on international trade.
(ii) International trade policies.
(iii) Trade and income distribution.
The second part has policy and empirical contents The topics covered in these parts will be:
(i) Migration flows and local labor market.
(ii) Poverty and inequalities - Reference texts
- (i) Krugman, Paul R., Obstfeld, M. and Marc Melitz. Economia internazionale. Vol. 1. Pearson Italia, 2019. (Chapters 1-12)
(ii) Reading list of scientific articles on the e-learning platform Unistudium. - Educational objectives
- The course has the following objectives:
(i) knowledge of international economics, trade flows and production factors flow.
(ii) knowledge of exchange rate regimes and basic macroeconomics of open economies.
(iii) knowledge of trade policies and their relationship with income distribution.
(iv) ability to read scientific economic articles
(v) ability to work with aggregate data to make statistical tables and figures.
(vi) ability to produce a short empirical essay - Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of microeconomics, mathematics and statistics. Basic use of Excel.
- Teaching methods
- The first part is based on theory lectures. The second will be organized with "flipped classroom" and data sessions at the lab.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam (80% of the final mark) in the official dates.
Delivery of a short essay on the topics of the second part (20% of final mark) - Extended program
- First Part:
1. Introduction to international economics
2. International trade: an overview.
3. Labor productivity and comparative advantages: the Ricardo model.
4. Short-term differences in endowment and specificity of factors: the specific-factor model.
5. Resources and trade: the H-O model.
6. General model of international trade.
7. The economies of external scales and the location of production.
8. Companies in the global economy: exports, outsourcing and multinationals.
9. The tools of trade policy.
10. Political economy of trade policy
11 Trade policy in developing countries
Second part:
1. International migrations: causes and consequences.
2. Migration and the labor market.
3. Poverty and inequalities.