75915 - Seminar in Economic Policy

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Bruno Salituro
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: SECS-P/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 8038)

Learning outcomes

The aim of  the seminar is to give students the basic theoreticals tools needed to understand the role played by macroeconomic policies in an open economy . On completing the course student should be able to use the basic macroeconomic models to analyze:             
 a) the effects on the home economy of domestic and foreign policies.
 b) the costs and benefits of monetary unions and the Euro experience.

Course contents

Sustainability of government finances.

The eurozone crisis.

ECB: objectives, instruments and strategies.

Monetary policy and the debt crisis.

Readings/Bibliography


Detailed readings will be given during lectures and published on web site of prof. Salituro.

Teaching methods

Front lectures.

Assessment methods

Attendance to lectures is sufficient condition to qualify. Signatures will be collected at the end of each lecture. For students who do not attend lectures there will be a written  exam consisting in two open questions on arguments discussed in the seminar and published on the website of prof. Salituro.

 

 

 

 

Teaching tools


Links to further information

http://https//campus.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Salituro