Università Roma Tre

The course will concentrate on selected important economic policy issues and relevant economic tools. The specific topics will be of contemporary interest, and will be announced by the start of each year. In any year the topics covered are likely to include some of the following: Globalisation: effects on welfare, development and income distribution; ii Inequality; Global imbalances ; Tax, fiscal policy and unemployment; Monetary policy and exchange rate frameworks ; Financial integration and currency unions ; Financial crises and relevant policies ; endogenous growth, exhaustible resources and relevant policies.

Politica economica, A. Benassy-Quere, B. Coeure, P. Jacquet. J Pisani-Ferry, Il Mulino 2014

1. Reasons, objectives, functions and instruments of economic policy (Chapter I)
2. The limits of economic policy (Chapter II)
3. Fiscal policy: scenarios and current context with particular reference to the case of the European Union (Chapter III)
4. Monetary policy: transmission channels, the role of the Central Banks, the debate on the Euro and the future (Chapter IV)
5. Exchange rate policy: international systems (Chapter V)
6. Tax policies: redistribution and correction of market failures (Chapter VII)
7. Protectionism and trade agreements (Chapter VII)
8. Growth policies: objectives, models, channels and public intervention (Chapter VI)
9. Regional policies with particular reference to the case of the European Union (Chapter VI)
10. Employment policies: the labor market, unemployment, objectives and policies in the current context (Chapter VIII)

“Politica economica. Teoria e pratica”, di Agnes Benassy-Quere, Benoit Coeure, Pierre Jacquet e Jean Pisani-Ferry (Il Mulino 2014).

1. Reasons, objectives, functions and instruments of economic policy
2. Fiscal policy: scenarios and current context, with particular reference to the case of the European Union
3. Monetary policy: transmission channels, the role of the Central Banks, the debate on the Euro and the future
4. International relations and systems
5. Tax policies: redistribution and correction of market failures
6. Protectionism and trade agreements
7. The limits of economic policy
8. Growth policies: objectives, models, channels and public intervention
9. Regional policies with particular reference to the case of the European Union
10. Employment policies: the labor market, unemployment, objectives and policies in the current context

“Politica economica. Teoria e pratica”, di Agnes Benassy-Quere, Benoit Coeure, Pierre Jacquet e Jean Pisani-Ferry (Il Mulino 2014)