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Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie, -politik und -geschichte Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie, -politik und -geschichte

o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. John-Ren Chen o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. John-Ren Chen, +43 512 507 71101
Prof. Dr. Kent A. Jones Prof. Dr. Kent A. Jones

432032

International Institutions 1

VO 3

Basics in micro- and macroeconomics, public finance, maths, english; interest in the topic;

Block

jährlich

Englisch

The course studies a number of important international economic institutions, the reasons for their existence, their policies and the effect of their policies on member countries and others

Introduction to Global Institutions; Global issues: Efficiency and Equity; Background: International Economics, Development Economics, and Political Economy; International Trade; Capital and Labor Flows; Technology Transfers; The Role of Global Institutions; Details: see http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/c409/c40905/

Lecture, presentations, discussion, additional material presented on the internet and in the seminar.

At the end of each lecture students have to write an essay choosing one of the topics, wich are taken from the material presented and the reading list. The evaluation of the interactive part is based on the group presentations and the seminar papers. The final exam for the whole course consists of a written test including problems from both, lectures and the seminar, as well as from the reading list and the symposium.

Kunibert, Raffer; H.W., Singer 2001; The economic North-South Divide: Six Decades of Unequal Development, E.Elgar Kaul, Inge (Hrsg) 1999; Global Public Goods; Oxford University Press John-ren Chen 2001, Global Market, National Sovereign and International Institutions; http://www.uibk.ac.at/csi/2001.html Allan H. Meltzer 2000, International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission, Expert Papers Krugman, Paul and Maurice Obstfeld(2000), International Economics: Theory and Policy, Fifth Edition/N.Y.: Addison-Wesley-Longman Publishers). Frieden, Jeffry A. a. David A. Lake (1999), International Political Economy, 4th Edition (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press) Archer clive (1992),Internat. Organizations, 2nd edition, routledge, London N.Y. Andersen Uwe, Woyke Wichard, eds. (1995), Handwörterbuch Internationale Organisationen, 2.Auflage, Leske- Budrich Opladen. Krueger, Anne, ed. (1998), The WTO An Internat. Organization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) + papers from the reading list (to be announced later)

Der Kurs wird in Englisch abgehalten !
Beginn: mit PS Hule/PS Eder