03568 - Economic Policy

Learning outcomes

The course will focus on the instruments to know the characteristics and the changes of the Italian and European economic policy though a particular attention to development problems, the national debt, the South of Italy, the employment, and the main European Union policies.

Course contents

- Introduction to political economy;

- The development and the Italian economic trends in the latter postwar;

- The Italian endogenous models and local systems, the industrial districts and the globalization;

- Some Italian structural problems: the national debt, the South of Italy, the employment and the unemployment;

- The role of the Italian economic policy in the European contest;

- The European budget;

- The single market, the Maastricht agreements, the economic and monetary union;

- The main European union policies: structural, regional and cohesion policies, agricultural policy;

Readings/Bibliography

-Viesti G., Prota F. ,Le politiche regionali dell'Unione Europea, Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.

-F. Guelpa, S. Micelli, I distretti industriali del terzo millennio. Dalle economie di agglomerazione alle strategie d'impresa, Il Mulino, 2007.

- V. Valli , Politica economica. Introduzione all'economia dello sviluppo, Carocci Editore, 2005.

- V. Valli , Politica economica. Volume primo, Carocci Editore, 1998.

- Fanfani R., L'agricoltura in Italia, dalla riforma agraria alla Parmalat, Il Mulino, “Farsi un'idea”, 2005.

- Padoa-Schioppa T., L'Euro in prospettiva storica, Il Mulino, 2002.

Teaching methods

The teaching method is based on a specific theory analyses of economic policy; then it shows the empirical approach to solve this problemusing data and scenario.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Laboratory lessons will be provided in order to present the main Regional Data Banksabout national and international socio-economic data sources.

Links to further information

http://www2.stat.unibo.it/brasili

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Brasili