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International Industrial Economics – Program. Augusto Ninni, 2013/2014. The teacher. May I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni ( specialized in industrial policy and energy markets )
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International Industrial Economics – Program Augusto Ninni, 2013/2014
The teacher • May I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni (specialized in industrial policy and energymarkets) • Times of the lessons: 11-13 on Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. When to start ? 11.00 or 11.15 ? • When to seestudents : on Thursday, office hours: 10-12 and 4:6 pm • Where: Padiglione Feroldi, 1° floor; • augusto.ninni@unipr.it
Programof the course • To analyzemanyissuesat a microeconomiclevel, mixing industrial and internationaleconomics • Toutilize a (relatively) non academic, i.e. practicalapproach
The coursehas 7 parts • Textbook industrial economics • Multinational and global valuechains • National microeconomic (= industrial) policies • Energy and environmental market • Transnationalorganizations • Lecturesby specialized speakers (Goldstein, Masina, Cordes, maybe Lupi) • Presentationsby the students (around 8 groups)
Programfor non attending people • Lipczynski Wilson Goddard “Industrial organization: Competition, Strategy, Policy”, FT Prentice Hall 2009 (3 copies hold by the University Library); • Isabel Faeth, “Determinants of foreign direct investments: a tale of nine theoretical models”, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 165-196 (electronic journals from the library); From Internet: • Koen De Backer, Norihiko Yamano, International Comparative Evidence on Global Value Chains OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper, 2012/03; • Economic Commission, EU Competitiveness Report 2012 (chapters 2 and 3); • FDI Policy Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages , Working Paper UNIDO 2009/01 • Xavier Vives, Industrial policy, chapter 4 of the EEAG Report on the European Economy, CESifo 2008
Programforattendingpeople… • The aforementionedtexts are a background: theyhavetosupportmyslides • Myslides are the maincourse input • Youshouldread the background texts and take account ofthemfor the writtenpapers • You do notneed to readparts of textsreferring to topicsnotpresented on the slides • My slides • Isabel Faeth, “Determinants of foreign direct investments: a tale of nine theoretical models”, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 165-196 (electronic journals from the library); • Slides by the speakers (Goldstein, Cordes, Masina, Lupi)
I willleaveyoumyslidesafter the lesson (sometimes some daysafter the lesson) • The lessonslideswill be on my Internet site: however the accessrequires a password
The examination The mark (out ofthirty) willbe the sum oftwoparts: • A paperwritten on the dayof the examination . Studentswillmeetfourquestions. The questions are abouttopicsdiscussedduring the course, includingthosepresentedby the speakers. plus • The resultof the possiblepresentation and followingdiscussion (from 0/30 to 3/30) shownduring the course • The timeallowedis 2 hours