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European Economic Integration - JEB026
Anglický název: European Economic Integration
Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2012 do 2015
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/2, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neomezen / neomezen (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Další informace: http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/syllab/JEB026/
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
Garant: prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
Vyučující: Laure de Batz de Trenquelléon, M.Sc., Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Oldřich Dědek, CSc.
PhDr. Petr Hedbávný
Olha Khymych, DiS., Ph.D.
Bc. Yao Wang, Ph.D.
Třída: Kurzy pro CZV
Courses for incoming students
Prerekvizity : JEB004
Je neslučitelnost pro: JPM313, JEM168
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Anotace - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Martin Kábrt, M.Sc. (25.09.2023)
The course covers all relevant aspects of European economic integration and is composed of ten topics: 1. Integration of goods markets, 2. Integration of capital flows and services, 3. Monetary integration and the euro, 4. Macroprudential policies and the euro, 5. Fiscal integration and the euro, 6. Regional policy, 7. Trade and aid policy, 8. Competition and industrial Policy, 9. Social and employment policies, 10. Common agricultural policy.
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Martin Kábrt, M.Sc. (17.09.2021)

Introductory comprehensive course to European economic integration. Individual topics of economic integration are approached from three angles: i) theoretical background helping to understand and assess the economics of integration, ii) historical perspective of integration processes, and iii) seminar discussion focusing on current problems and challenges.

Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: KOMAREKLU (24.09.2017)

Core:

  • Baldwin R. & Wyplosz C.: The Economics of European Integration (fourth edition). McGraw-Hill Education, 2012
  • Set of lecturer's presentations


Supplementary:

  • EL-AGRAA, A. The European Union: economics and policies. 9th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-40011-5.
  • DĚDEK, Oldřich: Doba eura: Úspěchy i nezdary společné evropské měny. Praha: Linde, 2013, ISBN: 978-80-7201-933-5 (in Czech).
  • DĚDEK, Oldřich: Historie evropské měnové integrace: od národních měn k euru. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2008, ISBN 978-80-7400-076--8. (in Czech; if you do not read Czech, use GROS, Daniel a Niels THYGESEN. European monetary integration. 1998, 2nd ed. Harlow: Longman)
  • GILBERT, Mark: European integration : a concise history. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publ. 2011, , ISBN: 978-0-7425-6664-4.
  • NEAL, Larry. The economics of Europe and the European Union. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-521-68301-2.
  • SENIOR NELLO, Susan. The European Union: economics, policies and history. 3rd ed. London: McGraw-Hill, 2012, xxv, 472 p. ISBN 978-0-07-712966-8.
  • http://europa.eu
  • Prof. Dedek's teaching materials can be also found on his personal website http://dedeklegacy.cz/index.htm
Metody výuky - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Martin Kábrt, M.Sc. (25.09.2023)

Lectures are delivered in-person. Lecture notes are uploaded by the end of each week. Students who are for objetive reasons (illness, study abroad etc.) unable to attend the lecture in person, can attend remotely through the following MS Teams link.

Seminars take the form of structured debates among students. More details will be provided in the first seminar.

 

Consultations by appointment.

Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Bc. Vít Macháček, Ph.D. (10.09.2018)

1. Basic Notions and Concepts: stages and methods of integration, dimensions and forms of integration, economic arguments of subsidiarity, legal foundations of the EU and its constitutional treaties, main European institutions.

2. Free Movement of Goods: theories of foreign trade liberalisation, theories of protection, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, free trade area versus customs union, discriminatory liberalisation, trade creation versus trade diversion, objectives of Rome Treaty, formation of customs union, technical barriers to trade, objectives of SEA, Lisbon Strategy.

3. Free Movement of Capital and Services: benefits of capital liberalisation, typology of capital restrictions, pressures to deregulate, consequences of single currency, features of service sector, benefits of liberalisation of services, integration methods, liberalisation of banking industry.

4. Monetary Integration and the Euro: theory of optimum currency areas, exchange rate as a shock absorber, competitive devaluation, equilibrium devaluation, monetarist critique of Phillips curve, Barro-Gordon model, exchange rate and capital mobility, impossible trinity, endogeneity of monetary union, Bretton-Woods system, European Payment Union, Werner Report, snake in the tunnel, European Monetary System, ECU, parity grid, collective realignments, 1992-93 crisis, Delors Report, Maastricht Treaty, convergence criteria, perceived inflation, Eurozone enlargement.

5. Integration of Fiscal Policies: basic features of European budget, sources of budget, first reforms, multi-year financial perspectives, pros and cons of tax harmonisation, origin versus destination principle of taxation, degree of tax harmonisation, Stability and Growth Pact, motivation and basic features of SGP, excessive deficit procedure, SGP reform.

6. Labour Markets and Social Policy: benefits of LM liberalisation, changing patterns of European migration, Schengen Agreement, links to JHA and CFSP, LM concepts, European social models, evolution of EU social policies, social dumping, links to monetary integration.

7. Common Agricultural Policy: rationale for state assistance, cobweb theorem, formation of CAP, main price and non-price intervention instruments, green currencies, key problems of CAP, reforms of CAP, challenges of Eastern enlargement.

8. Regional Policy: regional differences in EU, centrifugal and centripetal agglomeration effects, model of spatial equilibrium, evolution of RP, principles of operation, structural and cohesion funds, objectives of RP, organisation of RP, challenges of RP.

9. Trade and Aid Policy: world trade flows, EU trade partners, World Trade Organisation, WTO negotiation rounds, rationale for common trade policy, preferential pyramid of EU trade relations, EFTA, EEA, ACP countries, association treaties, hub-and-spoke integration, GSP.

10. Competition and Industrial Policy: protection of competition, monopolistic and oligopolistic equilibrium, reasons for supranational CP, five components of CP, organisation and coordination of CP, reforms of CP, approaches to IP, evolution of EU IP.

11. Taxation Policy: Corporate taxation and profit shifting, international tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens, tax competition, transfer pricing, country-by-country reporting, common consolidated tax based, and other potential remedies.

 
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