Timetable:

Credits:

9

Instructors:

Obligatory (first year)

I. ECONOMICS

1. Economics and economic macro-magnitudes
2. Markets, supply and demand
3. Aggregate supply and demand
4. Monetary system and money
5. Economic policy and macroeconomic objectives
6. International economic relations and foreign economic balance

II. INTERNATIONAL TRADE

1. International trade: Introduction
2. International trade: Theories
3. International trade: Trade policies

III. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

1. The globalisation of the international financial system
2. Foreign exchange markets and exchange rates
3. Exchange rate systems. Analysis and perspectives

IV. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANISATIONS

1. International Monetary Fund (International finance)
2. The GATT and the WTO (International trade)
3. The World Bank (globalisation, inequality and development)

V. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

1. Economic integration
2. The process of European economic integration
3. Monetary integration
4. Economic integration processes in the Americas

VI. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PERIPHERAL ECONOMIES

1. Growth and development
2. Sustainable development and the environment
3. North/South
4. Theories on growth and development
5. Theories on development
6. Development policies
7. Development policies and public intervention
8. North-South economic relation reform projects