156-0559/04 – Economic Policy (HPO)

Gurantor department	Department of Applied Economics	Credits	4
Subject guarantor	prof. Ing. Jaromír Gottvald, CSc.	Subject version guarantor	prof. Ing. Jaromír Gottvald, CSc.
Study level	undergraduate or graduate
		Study language	English
Year of introduction	2020/2021	Year of cancellation	2020/2021
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	2+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, A., Coeuré, B, Jacquet, P., Pisani-Ferry, J. (2010). Economic Policy: Theory and Practice. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532273-6. McConnel, C. R., Stanley, L. B., Flynn, S. M. (2015) Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies. McGraw-Hill 20th ed. ISBN 0078021758.

Recommended literature:

Mankiw, G. N. (2014). Principles of Economics. 7th ed., Cengage Learning. ISBN 128516587X. Dornbusch, R., Fischer, S., Startz, R. (2017). Macroeconomics. 13th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0077660773.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

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Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

• Market and government failures, changing views on the role of the state in the economy from the point of view of individual economic schools • Economic policy, influence of institutions and expectations on its form and effectiveness • Growth policy, stabilization policy • Fiscal policy • Monetary policy • Foreign-trade policy • Competition policy • Structural policy • Regional policy • Employment Policy • Redistribution policy • Social policy • Environmental policy • Economic policy in selected countries (USA, Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Czech Republic)

Conditions for subject completion

Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study

Occurrence in study plans

Academic year	Programme	Branch/spec.	Spec.	Zaměření	Form	Study language	Tut. centre	Year	W	S	Type of duty

Occurrence in special blocks

Block name	Academic year	Form of study	Study language	Year	W	S	Type of block	Block owner
Incoming students - bachelor study	2020/2021	Full-time	English				Choice-compulsory	163 - International Office	stu. block

Assessment of instruction

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