- Docente: Matteo Cervellati
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
Learning outcomes
The course introduces the themes and methods of fundamental analysis Political Economics and the theory of institutional change. After completing the course the student is expected to acquire the basic methodological tools of positive analysis and to be able to read and understand theoretical and empirical papers that investigate the determinants and consequences of institutional change that are published in top journals in political science and economics.
Course contents
- Stylized Facts of the socio-economic development in the long run.
- Macro-Hypothesis
- Theories of Economic Democratization: Reference model of Acemoglu and Robinson
- Comparative Statics of the basic model.
- Democratization and political failure: the model and the Persian Lizzeri.
- Democratizazzione and scenarios of the transition: the role of violence.
- Bringing the Theoretical Predictions to the data.
- Main results and empirical challenges
Readings/Bibliography
"Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" 2000 MIT Press Acemoglu e Robinson.
Reading list of articles.
Teaching methods
Slides and Blackboard
Assessment methods
Take home exam and presentation/oral exam
Teaching tools
Slides in PDF
Office hours
See the website of Matteo Cervellati