Educational guide Faculty of Business and Economics |
english |
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management (2009) |
Subjects |
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2017_18 |
Subject | INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS | Code | 16214204 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Optional | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Unit 0. Globalization, emerging markets and international economic relations | 0.1. The globalization 0.2. The emerging markets 0.3. The international economic relations |
PART I. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS | |
Unit 1. Foreign Direct Investment |
1.1. Introduction 1.2. Meaning of FDI 1.3. Relationship between trade and factor mobility 1.4. Why firms choose FDI |
Unit 2. Multinationals: the strategy of international business |
2.1. Introduction 2.2. Industry, Strategy, and Firm Performance 2.3. The Firm as Value Chain 2.4. Global Integration versus Local Responsiveness 2.5. Types of Strategy |
Unit 3. Collaborative Strategies |
3.1. Introduction 3.2. Why Exporting May Not Be Feasible 3.3. Noncollaborative Foreign Equity Arrangements 3.4. Why Companies Collaborate 3.5. Types of Collaborative Arrangements 3.6. Problems with Collaborative Arrangements 3.7. Strategy and Managing International Collaborations |
Unit 4. Export and Import Strategies |
4.1. Introduction 4.2. Exporting and Importing 4.3. Export Strategy 4.4. Export intermediary 4.5. Financing exports 4.6. Import Strategy |
PART II. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM AND ITS INFLUENCE IN MACROECONOMIC POLICIES | |
Unit 5. Introduction and the Gold standard |
5.1. Introduction 5.2. Goals of macroeconomic policies 5.3. Gold standard |
Unit 6. The International Monetary system and IMF |
6.1. Introduction: Interwar years 6.2. Bretton Woods system and IMF 6.3. Collapse of the Bretton Woods system 6.4. Options of economic policies in the Bretton Woods system |
PART III. GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
Unit 7. Global capital markets and gains from trade |
7.1. Introduction 7.2. Gains from trade 7.3. Portfolio diversification 7.4. Classification of assets |
Unit 8. International Capital Markets and regulation of international banking |
8.1. Participants 8.1. Offshore Banking 8.1. Offshore Currency Trading 8.1. Regulation of International Banking 8.1. Difficulties in regulating international banking |
Unit 9. Capital Markets and developing economies |
9.1. Introduction 9.1. Rich and poor countries: the gap 9.1. Characteristics of poor countries 9.1. Borrowing and debt in developing economies |
Unit 10. The debt and the debt of developing countries |
10.1 Introduction 10.2 The problem of “original sin” 10.3 Types of financial capital 10.4 Latin American, East Asian and Russian crises 10.5 Lessons from crises and potential reforms 10.6 Geography’s and human capital’s role in poverty |