120-0462/01 – Economic Integration English (AEI)
| Gurantor department | Department of International Economic Relations | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1. Extend English technical terminology related to economic integration.
2. Use the acquired terminology to understand expert texts.
3. Discuss using professional terminology.
4. Demonstrate expanded language skills.
Teaching methods
Tutorials
Summary
The aim is to acquire professional terminology pertaining to the issue of economic integration and to practice using it and fix it in the context of understanding professional texts and expert discussions. Seminars are focused at improving language skills so that students are able to communicate and interact with materials in English.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Credit - active participation in seminars, presentation, credit test.
E-learning
The course is supported by LMS Moodle.
Other requirements
Study of literature in English.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to Economic Integration - principles and levels, interdependence, sovereignty.
2. Personalities of International Economic Integration - Jacob Viner, Béla Balassa and other important personalities.
3. Pro- and Anti-integration Forces – separatism, xenophobia, border disputes.
4. The Effects of International Economic Integration - criteria for effect analyzes, models and findings.
5. Internal and Interregional Integration - principles and practical cases.
6. Free Trade Area - bilateral vs. multilateral free trade agreements, ASEAN, NAFTA, EFTA, CEFTA, DR-CAFTA, Mercosur, Pacific Alliance.
7. Customs Union. Principles and Practical Cases - the static vs. dynamic approach, specialisation and returns to scale, non-tariff barriers, BENELUX, ECC, Southern African Customs Union (SACU), EU Customs Union.
8. Primary Economic Union. Principles and Practical Cases - mobility of labour – country of origin vs. country of destination, mobility of firms – foreign direct investment, transnational corporations, coordinated and common economic policies, European Communities.
9. Developed Economic Union. Principles and Practical Cases - removing obstacles of invisible character, four fundamental freedoms, common market, Internal EU Market.
10. Formative Economic and Monetary Union. Principles and Practical Cases - monetary integration, costs and benefits, development of European monetary integration, eurozone, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, West African Economic and Monetary Union, CARICOM.
11. Full Economic and Monetary Union. Principles and Practical Cases - fiscal integration, fiscal policy, tax in the European Union.
12. Political Union. Principles and Practical Cases - institutionalized forms of political integration, future form of political integration in the EU.
13. Global Economic Integration – definition, main subjects of global integration, degrees of global integration.
14. Current issues of economic integration in the world.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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