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Type A
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Code |
Competences Specific | | | A1 |
Entendre els principis bàsics de funcionament de l'economia a nivell microeconòmic i macroeconòmic per a la gestió d'empreses. |
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Type B
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Code |
Competences Transversal | | | B4 |
Autonomy, responsibility and initiative |
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Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear | | | C1 |
Have an intermediate mastery of a foreign language, preferably English |
| | C3 |
Be able to manage information and knowledge |
| | C4 |
Be able to express themselves correctly both orally and in writing in one of the two official languages of the URV |
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Type A
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| | A1 |
Sap avaluar la situació d'una economia, coneix el seu funcionament i els efectes de les polítiques econòmiques.
Coneix els agregats macroeconòmics i les seves implicacions per al funcionament de l'economia.
Sap explicar els efectes macroeconòmics de les polítiques fiscals i monetàries.
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Type B
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| | B4 |
Do the work planned in accordance with the quality criteria provided.
Decide how to manage and organize work and time.
Decide how to do a particular job so that it is of the highest quality possible.
Decide what needs to be done for a particular job/project and do it according to schedule.
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Type C
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| | C1 |
Understand routine information and articles.
Recollir en apunts part de la informació que s'imparteix en una classe
| | | C3 |
Locate and access information effectively and efficiently.
| | | C4 |
Produce well-structured, clear and rich written texts
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| Topic |
Sub-topic |
| Chapter 1. Empirical evidence |
• Economic cycles
• Economic growth
• Inflation and deflation
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| Chapter 2. Measuring an economy |
• The circular flow diagram
• GDP (real and nominal)
• Unemployment
• CPI
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| Chapter 3. Aggregate supply and demand |
• Short-run and long-run aggregate supply
• Aggregate demand (AD): components and slope
• Equilibrium
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| Chapter 4. The market for goods |
• Components of AD and explanatory variables
• Fiscal policy: public deficit, multiplier, crowding-out effect
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| Chapter 5. The financial market |
• Money
• Monetary market, monetary multiplier
• Monetary policy: instruments, objectives
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| Chapter 6. Open economy |
• Capital flows and balance of payments
• Exchange rate
• Exchange rate policy
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| Chapter 7. Case studies |
• Hyperinflation and deflation
• Exchange rate crises
• The euro area
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| Methodologies :: Tests |
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Competences |
(*) Class hours
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Hours outside the classroom
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(**) Total hours |
| Introductory activities |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
| Lecture |
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35 |
35 |
70 |
| Problem solving, exercises |
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10 |
20 |
30 |
| Case study |
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10 |
20 |
30 |
| Assignments |
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0.5 |
15 |
15.5 |
| Personal tuition |
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0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
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| Extended-answer tests |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
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(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies
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Description |
| Introductory activities |
Activities designed to make contact with students, collect information from them and introduce the subject. |
| Lecture |
Description of the contents of the subject, raising questions and proposing real life situations to be studied with the analysis presented. |
| Problem solving, exercises |
Formulation, analysis, resolution and debate of a problem or exercise related to the topic of the subject. |
| Case study |
Students study a particular situation and must propose a reasoned solution, answer a series of questions or carry out a global analysis. |
| Assignments |
Essays and other work done by the students. |
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Description |
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Office hours to be communicated the first day classes will be held |
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Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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| Assignments |
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The students will carry out an assignment whose contents will be explained at the beginning of the course. |
15% |
| Extended-answer tests |
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There will be one or two exams during the lective period that will account for a 20% of the overall mark, and another exam on the date of the first official examination session that will account for 60% of the overall mark. |
20%
60% |
| Others |
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Economics Symposium Students may choose to attend lectures on a specific topic delivered by specialists and next answer an online multiple choice test available in Moodle. Alternatively, students may be write a short essay in which they answer questions on four previously selected newspaper articles. |
5% |
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Other comments and second exam session |
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On the date of the second official examination session there will be an exam that will account for 100% of the overall mark. |
| Basic |
Paul Krugman and Robin Welss, Macroeconomics, Worth Publishers, 2006
Michael Parkin, Economics, Pearson, 2009
Gergory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, Thomson, 2007
Bernanke i Frank , Principios de Economía, McGrawhill , 2007
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| Complementary |
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(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. |
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