114-0559/01 – Economic Policy (HPO)
| Gurantor department | Department of Economics | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Balcar, Ph.D., MBA | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Balcar, Ph.D., MBA |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
• understand the nature of economic policy
• familiarize with its types, objectives and tools
• assess the suitability of current economic policy
• estimate the impact of economic policy measures
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
In the course the students will understand the nature of economic policy, get acquainted with its chosen types and relations between them, will realize the influence of economic policy on the microeconomic sphere (companies, households), will acquire basic skills to evaluate current economic policy, its main problems and impacts of partial changes in economic policy.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
ISP: Credit - preparation of a seminar paper (the topic will be determined after discussion with the teacher) and a test, exam - test.
For other students the same conditions apply.
E-learning
Other requirements
Other requirements for the student are not defined.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Market and government failures, changing views on the role of the state in the economy from the point of view of individual economic schools
2. Economic policy, influence of institutions and expectations on its form and effectiveness
3. Growth policy, stabilization policy
4. Fiscal policy
5. Monetary policy
6. Foreign-trade policy
7. Competition policy
8. Structural policy
9. Regional policy
10. Employment Policy
11. Redistribution policy
12. Social policy
13. Environmental policy
14. Economic policy in selected countries (USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Czech Republic)
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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