Summer Program in International Economics

Attend a summer program in international economics in Spain

The principal objectives of the course are the following ones:

• Introducing the basic tools to disentangle and analyze the international economic relations
• Identifying the problems issuing from the international economic relations
• Presenting the most important theoretical approaches of the international economic transactions in particular referring to the international trade and relative trade policies
• Providing an overview (from an empirical and theoretical viewpoint) of the international economic integration
• Introducing the main features of the international economic institutions, their objectives and their range of action

This international economics program explores:

• International trade
• International monetary relations;In the section of International Trade the following topics are considered
• The principal trade theories and their impact in the definition of the terms of trade
• The trade policy tools and their effects
• The trade multilateralism and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
• The economic integration and its different degrees.In the section of the International monetary relations the following issues are tackled
• The exchange rate regimes and the currency risk
• The basics of exchanges of currencies
• The purchasing power parity
• The Government intervention in exchange markets: exchange rate systems
• The international monetary system and the role of the IMF