Unit ECONOMICS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
- Course
- Engineering management
- Study-unit Code
- A005313
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Davide Castellani
- Teachers
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- Davide Castellani
- Hours
- 48 ore - Davide Castellani
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- This course aims to offer an integrated perspective on the role of nations and firms in the global economy, and to serve as an introduction to international business, including a discussion of the essentials of international economics. In particular, the module revolves around the key questions of why (and how) to firms go abroad, and what are the consequences of international business activity for the nations, firms and people of the global economy.
- Reference texts
- Beugelsdijk, S., Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., van Marrewijk, C., & Murtinu, S. (2023). International Economics and Business: Nations and Firms in the Global Economy (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The complete list of reading materials will be communicated at the beginning of the second semester
- Educational objectives
- By the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to: understand the nature of the global economy, its causes and consequences, and its relevance for international business activities analyse how and why firms engage in international business activities, appreciating the benefits and costs of such internationalization choices relate firms' strategies to the bigger picture of the global economy
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, discussion of cases and groupwork activity
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam
- Extended program
- The global economy: concepts and facts Balance of payments Trade, comparative advantage and competition The role of the firm in modern international trade theory Firms, location and distance Multinational enterprises Global value chains Trade policy Managing acros borders