- Docente: Zoltan Pogatsa
- Credits: 4
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Interdisciplinary research and studies on Eastern Europe (cod. 8049)
Course contents
The course aims to discuss the foreign direct investment based transition models of the Central European, Baltic and South-Eastern European former socialist states to a market economy. It discusses the role of the state in conducting a development policy, as well as the context that European integration, and EU membership more specifically, have provided for this development. In a comparative perspective the course describes the likely success of this model, with reference to previous successful models of catch-up around the globe, such as Ireland or the Asian Tigers.
Readings/Bibliography
Balassa, B. (1961). The Theory of Economic Integration. Homewood, Illinois: Irwin.
Centre for European Reform. The Lisbon Scorecard I. – VII. . Centre for European Reform.
Cerny, P. G. (2007. 32/2.). Paradoxes of the Competition State: The Dynamics of Political Globalisation. Government and Opposition: An International Journal for Comparative Politics Volume , 251-274.
Drahokoupil, J. (2008). Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment. Basees / Routledge.
European Comission, D. R. (2007). Fourth Report on Social and Economic Cohesion "Growing Regions, Growing Europe". Brussels: European Commission.
European Commission. (2005). The Spidla Report – Report on the Functioning of the Transitional Arrangements set out in the 2003 Accession Treaty. Brussels.
Gillingham, J. (2003). European Integration 1950-2003: Superstate or New Market Economy?
Hall, P., & Soskice, D. (. (2001). Variaties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Migration Watch UK. (2007). The Impact of Immigration on GDP per head. Migration Watch UK.
Pogátsa, Z. (2009 /IV.). Hungary: From Star Transition Student to Backsliding Member State. Journal of Contemporary European Research .
Pogátsa, Z. (2009, IV.). Slovakia: Tatra Tiger or Belated Reconstruction? Acta Oeconomica .
Sommers, J. (2009, August). The Anglo-American Model of Economic Organization and Governance: Entropy and the Fragmentation of Social Solidarity in Twenty-First Century Latvia. Debatte , pp. 127-142.
Vodopivec, M. (2004). Labor Market Developments in the 1990s. In M. Mrak, M. Rojec, & C. Silva-Jáuregui, Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union (pp. 292-315). Washington: The World Bank.
Teaching methods
The course consists of a seminar of 20 hours, with discussions. Preliminary reading is required before each class.
Assessment methods
The examination will consist of a written paper.
Teaching tools
Lectures, discussion, quantitative illustrations.
Office hours
See the website of Zoltan Pogatsa