•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

192 prospectus udine
II. Privatizations, acquisitions, mergers
and international cooperation.
III. Instruments used developed by international
financial institutions and the
ongoing rethinking of policies for their
implementation. The foreign currencies
of reference and the emergence of the
Euro to a primary role: advantages and
costs. The European Central Bank.
IV. Criteria for the prevention of financial
crises. The debate on the Asian Currency
Unit.
V. Reform of the multilateral bodies for
economic and financial cooperation.
VI. International debts and the reform of
multilateral cooperation.
VII. The banking system and the repercussions
of Basel II. Towards an interconnected
and convergent banking system.
VIII. Corporate Governance and Risk
Management in Transition Economies:
the same general rules but a predominance
of peculiarities and flexibilities.
6. Utilities and commodities in trade and
international investments in emerging and
transition countries
I. The increasing importance of raw
materials, energy, networks, infrastructures
and logistics in international economics
and finance.
II. Energy resources as an alternative to
oil: costs and benefits of the alternative to
the barrel.
III. Financial implications of the exchange
rate policy regulating dollar, euro and
yen.
IV. International cartels, production quotas,
regional agreements and the WTO.
V. EU enlargement and its impact on the
utility and commodity markets.
7. Foreign direct investments (FDI), delocation,
currency rates and the global market
I. Production decentralization and relocation,
diversity between two needs of the
global industrial system. The Mundell-
Fleming model.
II. Labour cost, productivity, inflation,
foreign exchange mechanisms and economic-financial
regulations: optimizing
the choices.
III. Effects of the Balassa-Samuelson
model.
IV. Medium-term expectations of entrepreneurs
and the effects of the transition
on the whole economic system.
V. General criteria and common places
on calculating the degree of competitiveness
of single economies.
VI. Capital and innovation flows in industrialized
countries: technological
exchange and territorial marketing policies.
Possible frontiers of optimization
and compatibility.
Bibliography
Literature of reference
- DEBRAJ RAY, Development Economics,
Princeton University Press, 1998.
- P. HALLWOOD, R. MACDONALD, International
Money and Finance, Edizioni Blackwell,
2000.
- MUSU, Crescita Economica, Il Mulino,
2007.
- ASHISH ARORA, A. GAMBARDELLA (eds.),
From Underdogs to Tigers: the Rise and
Growth of the Software Industry in Brazil,
China, India, Ireland, and Israel, Oxford
University Press, 2004. ISBN:
0199275602.
Recommended readings
- P. KRUGMAN, M. OBSTFELD, Economia
Internazionale (Teoria e Politica Economica
e Finanziaria), Hoepli editions, Milano,
2005.
- L. BOGGIO, G. SERRAVALLI, Lo Sviluppo
Economico, Il Mulino, 2003.
- R. GILPIN, Economia e Politica Globale,
Edizioni Egea-Università Bocconi, 2003.
- WORLD BANK, World Development Report
and Global Development Finance 2006,
Oxford University Press.
- B. BLASZCZYK, R. WOODWARD (eds.), Secondary
Privatisation in Transition