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International Industrial Economics – Program. Augusto Ninni, 2014/2015. The teacher. May I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni ( specialized in industrial policy and energy markets ) Times of the lessons : 11-13 on Tuesday -Wednesday- Thursday . To start at 11.00?
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International Industrial Economics – Program Augusto Ninni, 2014/2015
The teacher • May I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni (specialized in industrial policy and energymarkets) • Times of the lessons: 11-13 on Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday. To start at 11.00? • When to seestudents : on Wednesday, office hours: 9-11 and 4:6 pm • Where: Padiglione Feroldi, 1° floor; • augusto.ninni@unipr.it • Please do not use mobiles and smartphones and othertechnologicaldevices to write and to readmessages
Programof the course • To analyzeissuesat a microeconomiclevel, mixing industrial and internationaleconomics • To analyze some issuesalsoat a macroeconomiclevel (transnationalorganizations and currentcrisis) • Toutilize a (relatively) non academic, i.e. practicalapproach
The coursehas 7 parts • Textbook industrial economics • Multinationalenterprises and global valuechains • National microeconomic (= industrial) policies • Energy and environmental market • Transnationalorganizations • Lectures by specialized speakers (Florio, Pengels, Giunta, maybeWehnert) • Presentationsby the students (around 8 groups)
Program for non attendingpeople From University library: • Lipczynski Wilson Goddard “Industrial organization: Competition, Strategy, Policy”, FT Prentice Hall 2009 (3 copies hold by the University Library); Frommy site: • 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); • OECD-World Bank-WTO, Report on Global Value Chains; • OECD paper on Industrial Policy (Warwick) • Koen De Backer, Norihiko Yamano, International Comparative Evidence on Global Value Chains OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper, 2012/03; • FDI Policy Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages , Working Paper UNIDO 2009/01
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
Program for Attending People: • 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, but it is also on my website); • + • Slides provided by the speakers (Florio, Pengels, Giunta, maybeWehnert)
I willleaveyoumyslidesbefore the lesson, at the beginning of the week (i.e. on Tuesday) • The slideswill 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 result of the possiblepresentationand followingdiscussion (from 0/30 to 3/30) shownduring the course • The time allowedis 2 hours • Payattention to the English grammar !