Learning Results
1. Provide the students with the International Economics seminal concepts, starting with the Microeconomics
assumptions as a fundamental theoretical background.
2. Provide that theoretical body , enabling students to understand the problems and characteristics of an open
economy, applying it to the reality of the economies in their current problems.
3. Stimulate students to have a critical opinion on topics related to the course.
4. Provide an overview of the theoretical evolution of this discipline, connecting it with historical events.
Program
Part A: Trade Theory
1. Labour Productivity and Comparative Advantage: the Ricardian Model
2. Resources, comparative Advantage and Income Distribution: Heckscher-Ohlin.
Part B: International Factor Movements
4. International Borrowing and Lending
5. Foreign Direct Investment: theory and effects
Part C: Trade Policy
6. The Instruments of Trade Policy
7. Controversies in Trade Policy
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Krugman, Paul R. e OBSTEFELD, Maurice (2010), Economia Internacional, oitava edição, New York, Pearson
Addison-Wesley.