114-0559/03 – Economic Policy (HPO)

Gurantor department	Department of Economics	Credits	4
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	Bachelor

Instruction secured by
Login	Name	Tuitor	Teacher giving lectures
BAL112	doc. Ing. Jiří Balcar, Ph.D., MBA

Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of study	Way of compl.	Extent
Full-time	Examination	3+0

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:

BÉNASSY-QUÉRÉ, Agnes, Benoit COURÉ, Pierre JACKQUET, and Jean PISANI-FERRY. Economic Policy: Theory and Practice. New York, Oxford University Press, 2018. 712 p. ISBN 9780190912109. KLIKOVÁ, Christiana a Igor KOTLÁN. Hospodářská politika. 5. vyd. Praha: Sokrates Media, 2019. 294 s. ISBN 978-80-87291-23-8. SLANÝ, Antonín a kolektiv. Makroekonomická analýza a hospodářská politika. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2003. 375 s. ISBN 80-7179-738-3.

Recommended literature:

TOMEŠ, Zdeněk a kolektiv Hospodářská politika 1900-2007. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2008. 262 s. ISBN: 978-80-7400-002-7. SLANÝ, Antonín a Milan ŽÁK. Hospodářská politika. 1. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 1999. 271 s. ISBN 80-7179-237-3. ŠAROCH, Stanislav a kolektiv. Vybrané kapitoly z hospodářské politiky. Praha: VŠE, 2002. 250 s. ISBN 80-245-0297-6.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

ISP: Zkouška - písemka. Pro ostatní studenty platí stejné podmínky.

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

Full-time form (validity from: 2020/2021 Winter semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Examination	Examination	100	51	3

Valid from	Valid until	Mandatory attendence participation
May 15, 2023 9:44:10 AM	Dec 19, 2023 11:40:45 AM	-

Mandatory attendence participation: Attendance at lectures is not mandatory.

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Occurrence in study plans

Academic year	Programme	Form	Study language	Tut. centre	Year	Type of duty
2024/2025	(B0412A050006) Finance	P	English	Ostrava	2	Compulsory	study plan
2023/2024	(B0412A050006) Finance	P	English	Ostrava	2	Compulsory	study plan
2022/2023	(B0412A050006) Finance	P	English	Ostrava	2	Compulsory	study plan
2021/2022	(B0412A050006) Finance	P	English	Ostrava	2	Compulsory	study plan

Occurrence in special blocks

Block name	Academic year	Form of study	Study language	Year	W	S	Type of block	Block owner
Incoming students- BS	2022/2023	Full-time	English				Choice-compulsory	163 - International Office	stu. block

Assessment of instruction

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