International Economic Policy · 2024/25
Master in International Markets
   

 
 

Antonio Quesada
Office 314
Departament d'Economia
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Avinguda de la Universitat 1
43204 Reus (Catalonia)

Office hours (February - May 2025)
Tuesday     08.00-09.00  15.00-17.00
Thursday    08.00-09.00  15.00-17.00

Office hours can be requested at aqa@urv.cat 
Classroom A2.3 · 1 April 2025 - 26 May 2025
Tuesday 17.00-19:00  and  Thursday 17.00-19:00
 
Sessions 
April
 1
 3
 8
 10 22 24 29
   
May
 6
 8
 13
 15 20 22  
 
 























 
 


 Topics   
 
1. Introduction - world macroeconomics with sovereign states
  Some trilemmas 
  Guess what comes next   
 
2. Global power - geopolitics, geoeconomics, Rise of the Rest
    
3. Global finance - dollar, international monetary system, inequality, trilemmas  
The elephant curve  
       1988-2008 (Heleen Mees 2016 How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West)
       1980-2016 ( http://wid.world/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ElephantCurve.pdf )
  A stockpile of dilemmas, trilemmas and quadrilemmas       

4. Global integration - tension integration vs fragmentation, European integration
 
5. Global futures - technology, society, ecosystem
  

Evaluation  

 Instructions for preparing and writing the essay  
List of books  



 Links  

  CEPR  |  VoxEU   
  The global minotaur   


 Readings
  
 Stephen Miran on the global trading system  
  Income inequality and support for right-wing parties  

           
Last update: 24 April 2025 · 16:56