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Students who fail the exam or withdraw during the exam will be thus annotated on GOMP, although this evaluation will not influence the graduation grade. However, such repeated evaluation will negatively weigh on the concessions requested from teachers, such as letters of recommendation, assistance with thesis, etc. Please note that students can cancel their exam booking up to three days before the exam date.
The classroom code is: yeyyl5r
Student office hours: Monday 5-7 pm from 25 Sept. to 4 Dec. 2023.
For urgent communications write to m.pugno(at)unicas.it
International Economics – Academic Year 2023/2024
The course consists of two parts: INTERNATIONAL TRADE (prof. P. Esposito) and INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (Prof. M. Pugno). The aim of the first part is to explain the main causes and consequences of international trade. It investigates why nations trade, what they trade, who gains (or not) from this trade, how trade is internationally regulated, and which are the policies for and against trade. The second part of the course first provides the necessary basic notions (such as the balance of payments, exchange rates, the determination of income in an open economy), and then explains the role that international transactions, both real and financial, have in determine the aggregate economic outcomes, as well as the policies that can influence these outcomes. To conclude, the international financial crises and the long-term economic growth of open economies are briefly explained.
The recommended TEXTBOOK is:
Gerber, James, International Economics, seventh edition, global edition, 2018 or 2017, Pearson Education, Edinburgh. https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Pearson/EAN/9781292214160/International-Economics-Global-Edition, Chapters of the textbook: 3-8 (international trade), 9-12 and 16 (international finance).
Other complementary and essential material has been provided during the lectures. The material for the trade part is uploaded in the webpage of Prof. P. Esposito (https://pieroesposito1.wordpress.com/).
COMPLEMENTARY AND ESSENTIAL MATERIAL for the finance part consists of: (1) the slides of the lecture (uploaded during the course, and to be requested to prof. Pugno); (2) A.P. Thirlwall, Balance of payments constrained growth models, PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 64 n. 259 (2011), 307-351, only Section 5 “The 1979 balance of payments constrained growth model” (downloadable here or here).
The rules of the EXAM are explained in the slides of the Introductory lecture (please, read them carefully).
See the web-page of GOMP at 91990 International economics for other details.
Exercises are held during class hours, and are included in the slides above.
The solutions of the exam esercises (Finance part) on Feb. 19, 2024 are here, here and here.
The results of the exams on Feb. 19, 2024 are here (entire exams), and here (combined partial exams, trade and finance). Rejections must be communicated within Feb. 24, 2024. Positive results of the complete exam (in green) are then automatically registered (in yellow marks of past tests).
International Economics – Academic Years from 2020/21 to 2022/2023
See above.
International Economics – Academic Year 2019/2020
The course of International Economics consists of two parts: International trade with lectures on Tuesday 3-5pm (prof. M. Pugno), and International finance with lectures on Monday 3-5pm (prof. F. D’Orlando) during the first semester. The exam is single. For both parts, the main text is: Gerber, James, International Economics, seventh edition, global edition, 2018, Pearson Education, Edinburgh.
In addition, for the first part:
- The material of the lectures, which is distributed upon request to the professor.
- Dani Rodrik, New Technologies, Global Value Chains,and the Developing Economies, September 2018, to be downloaded from the url:
https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-rodrik/files/new_technologies_global_value_chains_developing_economies.pdf
Economics (Basic) in italiano.
Economics of Human Capital in italiano.
Thesis
The drafts of the thesis must be sent to the supervisor at least one month before delivery to the secretariat.
The thesis is a personal work and must not be copied, in compliance with the sentence reported below. If the drafts of the thesis are copied, supervision will cease.
Sentence of Italian jurisprudence: “the drafting of a degree thesis containing the mere graphic transposition of another paper by a different author with some corrections and the addition of minimal elements of novelty, without any fruit content of personal evaluation or, in any case, of critical evaluation of the source used, constitutes the crime referred to in Article 1 of Law no. 475 of 19 April 1925 “(Judgment 13 April – 12 May 2011, no. 18826).