ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 57 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 6 Interactive Classroom: 9 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Foundations of Economic Analysis
Areas: Foundations of Economic Analysis
Center Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Learning objectives:
-To analise the influence that international trade and investment have on exchange rates and to explain the risks of economic and financial transactions in foreign currency.
-To use different theoretical and empirical models to explain the behavior of exchange rates.
-To analise the relevance of exchange rates behavior on financial and economic decisions and on business cycles.
International trade and monetary flows.
Theories of exchange rate determination
Prices, output and exchange rates
Monetary unions and financial flows
Globalization of capital markets and exchange rate volatility
Economic policy and exchange rates
Carlin, W. and D. Soskice (2024). Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and Inequality. OUP.
Gandolfo, G. (2016). International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics. Springer.
Gopinath, G., E. Helpman and K. Rogoff (eds.) (2022). Handbook of International Economics:International Macroeconomics, vol 6. North-Holland.
The Teaching Guide will give detailed information about journal articles and other recommended readings.
The aim of this course is to develop the student´s ability to apply the basic tools of economic analysis to the study of international economics and finance (which in turn trains their logical reasoning).
Teaching methodology : lectures, case studies, problem-solving classes and seminars.
Students will receive a Teaching Guide with detailed information on the specific topics, the reading lists and any other information useful for the students’ work. In the same vein, a Virtual Classroom will be used.
Assessment will take into account all the activities done in the course and will include all the competencies acquired. Final examination counts for 75% and coursework counts for 25% of the final mark. The Teaching Guide describes examinations and coursework in detail.
Students granted permission not to attend lectures will only be assessed by examination.
In addition to the 15 hours of lectures and classes, the student should dedicate 60 hours to personal work, that includes not only individual or group study, further reading and exercises, but also the time to prepare written examinations.
To pass this subject, we recommend that the students make an effort to study every week, solve and discuss practical exercises, read the recommended references and attend the office hours to solve any questions related to the subject.
Basic knowledge of English is needed (reading), since part of the references will be in English.
María Del Pilar Díaz Vázquez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Foundations of Economic Analysis
- Area
- Foundations of Economic Analysis
- Phone
- 881811553
- p.diaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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