Unit ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND GROWTH

Course
Politics, administration, territory
Study-unit Code
GP004194
Curriculum
Politiche del territorio
Teacher
Mirella Damiani
Teachers
  • Mirella Damiani
Hours
  • 21 ore - Mirella Damiani
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Economico-statistico
Academic discipline
SECS-P/01
Type of study-unit
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
International students are welcome to attend. The professor can suggest bibliographical references also in English. Answers to the exam can be written also in English or Spanish.
Contents
The course is organized with theory lectures on the following topics: (i) economic growth,
(ii) development economics (iii) poverty and (iv) inequalities (v) human capital.
Reference texts
Reading list of articles and book chapter on the Unistudium platform.
Educational objectives
(i) Knowledge of main theories of economic growth and economic development.
(ii) Understating the concept of living standard and its measurement.
(iii) Knowledge of data and methods to measure economic wellbeing, poverty and inequality.
(iv) Give tools to understand academic articles and reports on development, poverty and inequalities.
(v) Ability to use the software Stata and individual data to perform descriptive analysis of individual welfare and poverty and inequality.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of microeconomics, mathematics and statistics.
Teaching methods
The course is characterized by theory lectures and "flipped classroom" lessons.
Other information
Students that have 9 CFU credits will assist seminars on selected topics.
Learning verification modality
Short paper on a topic related to the subject (1/3 of the final mark) plus a written exam in the official dates on all the contents (2/3 of the final mark).
Extended program
1. Theories of economic growth: (i) Neoclassical theories and Solow model. (ii) the Ramsey model. (iii) Theories of endogenous growth.
2. Growth and development: (i) development as quality growth (social and environmental sustainability), (ii) growth and development indicators, (iii) institutions and development, (iv) social capital and development, (v) international development and migration (vi) development and human capital.
3. Economic well-being: (i) conceptual framework, (ii) measurement and (iii) data.
4. Inequalities: (i) inequality in the distribution of income and wealth, (ii) inequality of opportunities, (iii) gender inequality.
5. Poverty: (i) poverty lines, (ii) indices, (iii) multidimensionality.
6. Poverty, inequalities and development. (i) the relationship between growth, poverty and inequality, (ii) policies for poverty reduction and inequality.
7. Human capital (i) investment and return (ii) human capital and the family (iii) human capital and economic development.
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