|Course code: 174829||Subject title: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY|
|Credits: 6||Type of subject: Optative||Year: 4||Period: 2º S|
|ALAEZ ALLER, RICARDO (Resp)||RIOS IBAÑEZ, VICENTE|
Keywords: Economic policy. Monetary politics. Fiscal policy. Great Recession.
Area of knowledge: Applied Economics.
CB4 -Students are able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CG01 - A capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CG03 - Oral and written communication in their mother tongue.
CG06 - The ability to search for and analyse information from different sources.
CG14 - Critical and self-critical skills.
CG17 - A capacity for self-reliant learning.
CE01 - Understand economic institutions as the result of theoretical or formal representations of modern economies.
CE02 - To identify sources of economic information relevant to their particular enterprise and their contents.
R03 - National and international economic reality, productive sectors, public sector, economic institutions and their evolution.
R13 - Spanish economy, world economy and economic history.
R27 - Limitations of Economic Theory. Current research areas and outstanding problems.
RA1 - Understand the logic of the practice of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States and Japan.
RA2 - Analyze the monetary and fiscal policy decisions adopted in the United States and Japan.
|Methodology - Activity||Contact hours||Non-contact hours|
|A-1 Expositive-participatory lessons||35|
|A-3 Debates and presentations||10|
|A-6 Individual study||37|
|A-7 Exams and proofs||01|
|A-8 Individual tutorials||02|
|CB3||A2, A4, A5|
|CB4||A2, A3, A8|
|CG01||A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7|
|CG03||A1, A4, A7|
|CG14||A1, A2, A4, A7|
|CG17||A4, A5, A6|
|CE01||A1, A2, A5, A6, A7|
|Learning outcome||Evaluation System||Weight (%)||Character|
|R3, R13, R27, RA1, RA2||Final Exam||60||Recoverable|
|R3, R13, R27, RA1, RA2||Practices||40||Recoverable|
1. The subject offers different frameworks that allow interpreting the causes of the behavior of short-term economic policy objectives.
2. A set of tools will be used to analyze the behavior of economic variables and the interrelationships established in an economic system, always from the perspective of public intervention in the economy. In this sense, a rigorous description of the institutional framework in which the decisions will be made, and specifically of the Central Banks of US and Japan, as well as those responsible for discretionary fiscal policies.
3. The main sources of information on the strategy and practice of economic policy will be presented. Students will analyze the basic documents: Federal Reserve balance sheet, public presentations by Board of Governors of the Fed members; Documents prepared by the Congressional Budget Office; Economic Report of the President; Reports and articles published by the Bank of Japan and articles in scientific journals.
4. The main econometric methodologies and approaches used in Central Banks will be used to carry out comparative economic policy analysis in practical lessons.
Part 1: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the USA
1 The conduct of Monetary Policy
1.1 Origins and Structure of the Federal Reserve System
1.2 Monetary Policy Strategy
1.3 Conventional and Nonconventional Monetary Policy Tools
1.4 Fed Policy Procedures: Historical Perspective
2 Fiscal Policy
2.1 The Federal Budget
2.2 Fiscal Policy Multipliers in the US and Cross-Country Interactions
2.3 Automatic Stabilizers
2.4 Fiscal Policy Rules vs Discretion
2.5 Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality Trends
2.6 Economic Policy and Financial Instability: monetary and fiscal policy during the Great Recession
Part 2: Economic Policy in Japan
3 Economy and Economic Policy in Japan since 90s
3.1 A growthless decade, assets depreciation and deleveraging
3.2 The collapse of the financial system
3.3 The limits of the Monetary Policy
3.4 The Public Budget in Japan. Automatic Stabilizers
3.5 Discretionary Fiscal Policy during the 90s
3.6 The relationship between Monetary and Fiscal Policies
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Aulario de la Universidad Pública de Navarra en Pamplona.