Description du cours
Intitulé de l'Unité d'Enseignement
European Economics
Code de l'Unité d'Enseignement
22MEP10
Année académique
2022 - 2023
Cycle
MASTER
Nombre de crédits
5
Nombre heures
60
Quadrimestre
1
Pondération
Site
Anjou
Langue d'enseignement
Anglais
Enseignant responsable
MAES Ivo
Objectifs et contribution de l'Unité d'Enseignement au programme
This course is aimed to improve students' capacity for critical evaluation and their oral and written
communication skills.
To encourage. This course encourages students to place the EU within the global context. It helps students to become open to the world and to think globally.
Competency Goals :
CG 1 Disciplinary Knowledge
CG4 Open to the world
CG5 Aware of complexity / Critical Mind
CG6 Communicate orally and in writing in several languages
Prérequis et corequis
None
Description du contenu
Activités d’apprentissage (AA) qui composent l’Unité d’Enseignement (UE)
- How to understand the current macro economics context in the EU (G.Hites)
- European Monetary Union (I.Maes)
This course is concerned with the process of economic and monetary integration within the European
Union. The main fields covered are:
1) Trade in product and factor markets;
2) Labour market related issues, including unemployment and immigration;
3) EU sovereign debt crisis.
4) The European Monetary System
5) The Maastricht process
6) The European financial integration
Méthodes pédagogiques
Interactive class
Mode d'évaluation
? Class participation
? 2 written reports and oral presentations to be completed in study groups
Written report to be completed individually.
Références bibliographiques
Baldwin, R. and Wyplosz C., 2009, The Economics of European Integration, McGraw Hill, 596 pages:
Chapters 5, 8, 18
Blanchard, O. and Amighini A. and Giavazzi F., 2010, Macroeconomics: a European Perspective,
Prentice Hall, 616 pages
Rajan, Raghuram 2011, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy,
Princeton University Press, 270 pages
Maes Ivo and Frank Moss (eds.), Progress through crisis?, ECB, 2014
Maes Ivo, 2007, Half a century of European financial integration, Mercatorfonds