Public University of Navarre



Academic year: 2018/2019 | Previous academic years:  2017/2018  |  2016/2017  |  2015/2016  |  2014/2015 
International Double Bachelor's degree in Economics, Management and Business Administration at the Universidad Pública de Navarra
Course code: 176849 Subject title: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Credits: 6 Type of subject: Optative Year: Period: 1º S
Department:
Lecturers:
CASARES POLO, MIGUEL (Resp)   [Mentoring ]

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Module/Subject matter

Macroeconomics.

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Contents

This course examines short-run fluctuations in business cycles, with special attention focused on the effects of fiscal and monetary policies on GDP. Models assume fixed prices in the short-run and fully-flexible prices in the long-run equilibrium. The analysis is based on an open-economy macroeconomic model with asset markets, goods market and an either floating or fixed rates in the foreign exchange market.

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Descriptors

International Economics, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange markets.

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General proficiencies

- GP01 Ability to analyze and summarize

- GP04 Writing and Speaking in English

- GP07 Ability to solve problems

- GP09 Team work

- GP11 Work in an international environment

- GP12 Information search

- GP17 Autonomous learning

- GP19 Creativity

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Specific proficiencies

- SP01 Understand the behavior of economic institutions with formal models

- SP04 Use economic analysis with scientific instruments

- SP05 Write reports describing economic phenomena

- SP06 Research projects at international, national or regional levels

- SP10 Evaluate the performance of alternative policies and select them with technical criteria

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Learning outcomes

International finance and foreign exchange markets.

Open-economy macroeconomics.

Exchange rate regimes.

An introduction to dynamic macroeconomic models with rational expectations.

Optimal monetary areas and the Eurozone case.

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Methodology

Activities On-class Hours Off-class Hours
A-1 Lectures 30  
A-2 Seminars 20  
A-3 Discussions 10  
A-4 Homeworks   25
A-5 Readings   10
A-6 Individual studying   45
A-7 Exams 06  
A-8 Office Hours   04
Total 66 84

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Evaluation

  Weight Second-call replaceable
Practice 35% NO
Midterm exam 25% YES
Final exam 40% YES

Practice consists of the evaluation in the seminar sessions and it may come from differentiated items (problem sets, other individual or group homework, presentations, in-class quizzes or individual exercises, etc.)

A minimum mark of 4/10 in either the final or the retake exam is required to pass the course.

Those students who do not take any of the two final exams will obtain the overall grade "NO PRESENTADO".

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Agenda

1. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments

2. Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach

3. Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates

4. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run

5. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run

6. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention

7. An introduction to dynamic macroeconomic models with rational expectations

8. Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro

9. Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.


International Economics: Theory and Policy (2018), 11th edition, Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, and Marc Melitz. Pearson.

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Languages

English.

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Location

Aulario on Campus Arrosadia, UPNA.

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