Master in International Markets
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Master in International Markets |
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Antonio
Quesada Office hours can be requested at aqa@urv.cat |
Classroom A0.5 (no longer A0.7) · 1 April 2019 - 29 May 2019 Monday 15.00-17:00 and Wednesday 15.00-17:00
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 Topics  1. Global
dominance of the United States 2. Tension between integration and
fragmentation 3. International conflict
4. Global finance and the
international monetary system
5. Development and sustainabilityGames Game 1 1 2 Solution Game 2 | Game 3 and solution | Game 4 (sanctions) and solution (partial · complete)  Lecture notes 29
April 2019 (mainly on topics 3, 4 and 5)
Lecture notes
6 May 2019 (mainly on topic 2)Unemployment model | Savings identity Lecture
notes 8 May 2019 (mainly on
topic 4) Lecture
notes 13 May 2019
Big questions
| 20
May 2019
When an image is worth a
thousand words News Argentina
vs Japan | The
Economist 30
Mar 2019 
Europe
has a choice: Pull together, or be pulled apart
| New York
Times 25 Mar 2019
The
Asian century is set to begin · Asia
vs the rest · GDP
share | Financial Times
26 Mar 2019 An open letter to Greg
Mankiw | Harvard
Political Review, 2 November 2011 Charts Charts
from P Dicken (2015): Global Shift 
Censorship
| China's tax
structure 2014
| China's
vertical map
| GDP
shares
| Inequality
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War
GlobalGovernanceSystem
Govt
debt held by
domestic banks
Euro trap?
Growth
| Growth2
| Unemployment
| Unemployment2
| Exports
to EU
| GDP
capita
| EUtango | Target balances 2012 | BoP Papers 'Economic exit, interdependence, and conflict' 2003, Mark Crescenzi, Journal of Politics 65(3), 809-832 | Model 'International policy coordination in the Euro area: Toward an economic and fiscal federation by exception' 2013, Jean-Claude Trichet, Journal of Policy Modeling 35(3), 473-481 'The Euro after 20 Years is a historic success' 2018, Jean-Claude Trichet, Review of World Economics 'How far will international economic integration go?' 2000, Dani Rodrik, Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(1), 177-186 'Transitioning to a green economy: Conflicting visions, critical opportunities and new ways forward' 2017, Martin Gainsborough, Development and Change 'Can climate change us?' 2017, Ronnie Lipschutz, Development and Change 'The Political Economy of Industrialization' 2017, Servaas Storm, Development and Change 'Reforming Global Economic Governance as if Development Mattered' 2018, Kevin P. Gallagher, Development and Change 'On the number and size of nations' 1997, Alberto Alesina & Enrico Spolare, Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(4), 1027-1056 'War, peace and the size of nations' 2005, Alberto Alesina & Enrico Spolare, Journal of Public Economic 89, 1333-1354 'On the benefits of fiscal policy coordination in a currency union: A note' 2009, Ansgar Belke & Daniel Gros, Empirica 36, 45-49 'Is poverty in our genes?', 2013, Current Anthropology vs Ashraf & Galor, 2013, American Economic Review 'Exit strategies, capital flight and speculative attacks: Europe's version of the trilemma' · Chart 2019, Andreas Steiner, Sven Steinkamp, Frank Westermann, European Journal of Political Economy Books Avner Greif (2006) Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade, Cambridge University Press Hans-Werner Sinn (2014): The euro trap: On bursting bubbles, budgets, and beliefs, Oxford University Press. Robert D. Blackwill; Jennifer M. Harris (2016): War by other means: Geoeconomics and statecraft, Belknap Press. Links
Fragile
states index
Institute for
international
economic
policy
Institute of international finance
World economic forum
TARGET2
| Explainer ·
Eurocrisis
monitor
Ifo Institute
Financial stability board
Good
life within
planetary
boundaries
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Boundaries |
Social
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Biophysical
Understanding
conflict
Flight
from nature
Planetary
boundaries
| Can
we live inside
the doughnut?
UK
Environment
Plan
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UK’s
contribution
to stopping
global warming
(Report)
Stepping
back from the
brink
| George
Monbiot
Global
reports: Human Development Report
| World
Development
Report
| Global
Financial
Development
Report
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Evaluation Option 1: Paper to be written (based on a published paper) and, possibly, orally presented (You may start searching for the published paper in the journals listed below) Option 2: Organize the, in your opinion, most significant ideas from the lecture nodes in terms of the big five sketch above (what ideas, events, analyses, results, explanations... have to do with global hegemony, international conflict, development, international finance and global integration/fragmentation) Journals Real-world Economics
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Real-world
Economics Review World
Social and Economic Review Cambridge Journal of Economics
Globalizations
International Studies Quarterly
Open Economies Review
Review of International
Organizations
Review of International Political
Economy
International Organization
Review of World
Economics
Journal of International
Economics
Journal
of European
Public Policy
Journal of
International Money and Finance
Journal of Economic Integration
Politics & Policy Development and Change The World Economy Asian Survey Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Journal of Comparative Economics Comparative Politics Political Science Quarterly Journal of Institutional Economics Journal of Bioeconomics Journal of Economic Perspectives Journal of Conflict Resolution Third World Quarterly International Economic Journal World Development International Economics Economic Policy Economic Analysis and Policy Contemporary Economic Policy Global Policy Quarterly Journal of Political Science World Politics Political Science & Politics Journal of Theoretical Politics International Economics and Economic Policy Cooperation and Conflict International Affairs Journal of International Development Review of Radical Political Economics Atlantic Economic Journal SSRN Electronic Journal Journal of Policy Modeling Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Journal of Common Market Studies Review of International Economics Economics of Transition International Journal of Finance & Economics Journal of Economic Studies European Economic Review Japan and the World Economy Journal of African Economies Journal of Developing Areas Journal of Asian Economics International Review of Economics & Finance NBER Macroeconomics Annual Journal of Monetary Economics Government and Opposition Economic Record Australian Journal of Political Science International Interactions International Studies Review Foreign Policy Analysis American Journal of Political Science Economics & Politics Journal of Peace Research Journal of Macroeconomics European Journal of Political Research Asian Economic Journal Perspective on Politics Journal of Economics Journal of Politics Economic Affairs Kyklos Journal of Peace Research Oxford Review of Economic Policy Economic Inquiry Policy Sciences International Security European Journal of International Relations Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
'Socialism
starts
at home' · Costas Lapavitsas
24 Oct
2018
European
institutions
make neoliberalism
and German
hegemony
stronger Costas Lapavitsas | eldiario.es 19 May 2019 (in Spanish)
'There
is no mass
public revolt
against
globalisation'
· The Guardian
02 May 2019Guardian YouGov Temporary employment
Global debt
IMF
(Jan
2019) Debt History
(IMF.org)
· $244
trillion
(Jan 2019) Sectoral debt · Global debt-to-GDP ratio
(Q3
2018): 318%
(bloomberg.com) Debt clocks
· List
of countries
by external
debt
· Debt-to-GDP
2019
Visualizing
global debt
(McKinsey
Global
Institute)
Global inequality
Global wealth inequality ·
High
or rising
inequality · Richest
1%
Global
wealth
databook
and report (Credit Suisse)
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Global
wealth report
World
inequality
report 2018 · World
inequality
report
· World inequality database
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