Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 176849 | Subject title: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: | Period: 1º S | ||
| Department: Economía | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| CASARES POLO, MIGUEL (Resp) [Mentoring ] | DEL VILLAR OLANO, ALBA MARIA [Mentoring ] | ||||
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.
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
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
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.
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 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome | Assessment activity | Weight (%) | It allows test resit | Minimum required grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP04, GP07, GP09, GP12, GP19, SP04, SP05, SP06 and SP10. | Practices | 25 | No | 0 |
| GP01, GP04, GP07, GP12, GP17, SP01, SP04 and SP10. | Mid-term exam | 25 | No | 0 |
| GP01, GP04, GP07, GP12, GP17, SP01, SP04 and SP10. | Final Exam | 50 | Yes | 4 |
Practices include studentt 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".
Agenda
0. National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments
1. Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach
2. Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
3. Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run
4. Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange Intervention
5. Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
6. An Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Models with Rational Expectations
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.