- Docente: Hubert Marie Paul Kempf
- Credits: 3
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics (cod. 8408)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have acquired knowledge of specific advanced topics in macroeconomics and the ability to develop critical and original views on the issues covered in the course.
Course contents
The plan of the course is the following:
Introduction
1 Defining a monetary unions : between international openness and monetary sovereignty
2 Why a monetary union?
3 Monetary policy: lessons from simple macroeconomic models
4 Public deficits, transfers and public debts
5 Fiscal policies in a monetary union
6 Which policy mix in a monetary union ?
7 Fiscal federalism or intergovernmental cooperation ?
8 Thinking a fiscal union
Conclusion.
Office hours
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