30557 - International economics of agrifood markets

Academic Year 2016/2017

Learning outcomes

At the end of the teaching course the students should have comprehended the main elements of the dynamic of the agricultural products international economics, the integration forms applied among the countries, the strategies developed on the international markets in order to protect/to open the trade flows (duties, non-tariff barriers, etc.).

The students could also have acquired the capacity to examine the agricultural product performances on the market identifying its movements and its hypothetical evolutions.

Course contents

International Economics: definitions and opening data

Main theories about the international trade: principles and development

Protectionism: tools and effects

Types of economic integration

International Monetary Economics: elements of monetary hystory; the national balance of payments

Readings/Bibliography

Dominick Salvatore “Economia internazionale – teoria e politiche del commercio internazionale”, RCS Libri SpA, 2002

·      Dominick Salvatore “Economia internazionale – economia monetaria internazionale”, RCS Libri SpA, 2002

·      Giuseppe De Arcangelis “Economia internazionale”, McGraw-Hill, 2005

Teacher could suggest the chapters of each book.

Occasionally slides and lecture notes

Teaching methods

The teaching course is constituted by oral lessons without laboratories. It includes five teaching units: the introduction of the course is the first and the fifth is dedicated to seminars and exercises in classroom. The other units develop the main theories and tools of the international economics.

Seminars about some particular and interesting themes will take place during the course.

Assessment methods

Oral examination (about 20 minutes), occasionally with exercises.

Integrated Teaching course: final judgement will be an average of the results obtained in each examination.

Final examination could be made also in English language. Appropriate materials will be pointed out as soon as possible.

Teaching tools

Whiteboard, projector, pc and internet.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Castellini