Unit ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003823
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Lucia Mangiavacchi
- Teachers
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- Lucia Mangiavacchi
- Hours
- 63 ore - Lucia Mangiavacchi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline economiche-politiche
- 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. First Part:
(i) International trade models.
(ii) Trade and income distribution.
Second Part:
(i) International trade policies.
(ii) Migration flows and local labor market.
(iii) 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
- Mode A: two written exams (on the first and second part of the course).
Mode B: one written exam on the whole program. - 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.
Second Part:
1. The tools of trade policy.
2. Political economy of trade policy
3. Trade policy in developing countries. 4.International migrations: causes and consequences.
5. Migration and the labor market.
6. Poverty and inequalities.