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 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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.
- Contents
- The course is organized in two parts.
First Part:
-Migration flows and local labor market.
-Poverty and inequalities
-Intergenerational mobility
Second Part:
-International trade models.
-Trade and income distribution.
-Trade and development - Reference texts
- 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 trade policies and their relationship with income distribution.
(iii) ability to read scientific economic articles
(iv) 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 course is based on theory lectures. in the second part of the week will be organized with "flipped classroom" and data sessions at the lab.
- Learning verification modality
- Research paper on the topics of the course.
- Extended program
- The course is organized in two parts.
First Part:
-Migration flows and local labor market.
-Poverty and inequalities
-Intergenerational mobility
Second Part:
-International trade models.
-Trade and income distribution.
-Trade and development - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 1. Zero poverty; 10. Reduce inequalities.