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Course Outline

Foreword

The aim of this course is to equip students with a critical understanding of the economic issues in this EU debate. The course provides a blend of descriptive information, theory and empirical analysis. The emphasis is on economic issues but these issues are studied in their political and social context. Theoretical analysis forms an essential part of the course and requires knowledge of intermediate micro- and macroeconomics. Particular attention is devoted to policy areas in which EU co-ordination has progressed furthest: monetary and fiscal integration, internal market, external trade policy, regional policy, agriculture, competition and social policy.

Office hours:

Francisco Requena. Room 4E06. Tuesday, 12h30-14h00 and 15h30-17h30

Cecilio Tamarit. Room 4F04. Wednesday, 10h30-13h30.

Reading List and Course Outline

Core Texts:

Hitiris, T. (2003): European Union Economics, 5th edition.

Complementary reading:

Artis, M.J. and Nixson, F. (2001): The Economics of the European Union (third edition), Oxford University Press.

INTERNET resources:

All the information about the development of the subject (material, exercises, marks, quiz...) is posted in this webpage. Additional material may be distributed through the personal page of the lecturers of the subject under the section "teaching":

http://www.uv.es/~tamac

http://www.uv.es/~frequena

The European Documentation Center of the Universidad de Valencia is located in the Library of Social Sciences.

http://www.uv.es/cde/

A second useful address is the official server of the European Union.

http://europa.eu.int/

Thirdly, the technical factsheets of the European Parliament are particularly interesting to update the development of the different aspects and policies of the EU integration process.

http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/default_es.htm

Statistical information can be checked and downloaded from the official serve of the Statistical Office of the EU:

http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/servfr/home.htm

Finally, a very interesting and useful address for information about macroeconomic and, specially, monetary issues is the web page of the European Central Bank:

http://www.ecb.int/

Classes:

Students are required to attend and prepare for weekly classes, designed to review and supplement the lecture material. Reinforcing the theories and issues covered in the lectures classes will be based around structured exercises, short presentations, class discussions and group work. More precisely, after completing every lesson the students are expected to answer the questionnaire at the end of the quoted chapter of the core textbook. For every questionnaire, some students will be responsible for the public presentation of the answers in the classroom for general discussion and they will receive a mark for that task that can be as high as 1 point to add to the score obtained at the final exam. Moreover, the students can obtained some extra marks on a non-compulsory basis (up to another 1 extra point) preparing short papers (10-15 pages) on the topics listed below and presenting them in the classroom. These presentations will take place the 4 last weeks of the course.

List of topics proposed for the completion of short papers:

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