49015 - ECONOMY AND REGIONAL POLICIES IN RUSSIA (GB)

Contenuti

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.

Testi/Bibliografia

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.

Metodi didattici

The course consists of a seminar of 20 hours, with discussions. Preliminary reading is required before each class.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The examination will consist of a written paper.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Lectures, discussion, quantitative illustrations.

Orario di ricevimento

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