Course: Economic Policy of EU

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Course title Economic Policy of EU
Course code UEV/CHPU
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
Reasons for European integration and disintegration. EU policies and their classification. Monetary policy of the Eurozone countries. Fiscal policy and fiscal union formation. Single market and the protection of competition. Common trade policy. Common transport policy and trans-European networks. Common agricultural policy. Consumer protection policy. Common foreign and security policy. Migration policy. Regional policy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Methods of individual activities
  • Contact teaching - 14 hours per semester
  • Individual project - 42 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 4 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 40 hours per semester
  • Data/material collection - 15 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 35 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to characterize the basic causes supporting the integration of states within the European Communities, to characterize the respective policies leading to the stabilization of the economic situation of the individual states as well as the EU as a whole and to evaluate the respective impacts of the economic policy implementation on the EU economy as well as on the economies of the member states.
Student will be able to orientate in the complicated environment of the European integration, or to better understand theirs conditions and mutual relationships of separate policies in the EU.
Prerequisites
The knowledge of the issue of the economics and economic policy taught in bachelor study is the condition.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

The assignment will be awarded on the basis of successful elaboration and acceptance of the seminar work on the chosen actual topic corresponding to the lecture issues. The alternative assignment will be granted on the basis of the acceptance the research from a foreign language literature. The exam will be written (for regular and the first resit term) or oral (for the second resit term).
Recommended literature
  • BACHÁNOVÁ, V.:. Fiskální politika v prostředí Evropské hospodářské a měnové unie. 1. vydání. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7400-526-8..
  • BALDWIN, R.E., WYPLOSZ, CH.:. Ekonomie evropské integrace. Praha: Grada, 2013. ISBN 978-80-247-4568-8..
  • KUČEROVÁ, I.:. Hospodářské politiky v kontextu vývoje EU. Praha: Karolinum, 2010. ISBN 978-80-246-1628-5..
  • LACINA, L., OSTŘÍŽEK, J. A KOL.:. Učebnice evropské integrace. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87474-31-0..
  • PLCHOVÁ, B., ABRHÁM, J., HELÍSEK, M.:. Česká republika a EU - Ekonomika - Měna, Hospodářská politika. Praha: Agentura KRIGL, 2010.


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