XAEP Economic Policy and Regional Development

Moravian Business College Olomouc
summer 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Jolana Skaličková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Ondřej Vojáček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Jolana Skaličková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Ondřej Vojáček, Ph.D.
Moravian Business College Olomouc
Supplier department: Moravian Business College Olomouc
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the theory of economic policy, its main instruments and their use in practical economic policy at the national and regional level. The main attention will be paid to the concept of regional policy, its objectives, tools and practical implementation of macroeconomic and microeconomic economic policies in specific conditions of regional development.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theoretical and practical bases of economic policy
    2. Objectives and the holders of the state economic policy
    3. Instruments of regional economic policy
    4. Application of the tools and objectives of regional economic policy
    5. Stabilization policy, the place and function of the fiscal and monetary policies
    6. External economic policy as a tool of regional stabilization policy
    7. Economic policy in the context of the internal and external equilibrium
    8. Theory of regional development
    9. Structural and regional policy
    10. Regional development, the definition of regions
    11. Social policy and its regional aspects
    12. Current issues of regional policy and regional development
    The lectures which mostly take the form of lectures with discussion, interactive lectures or lectures supported by multimedia, are based in particular on the information-receptive method, verbal methods (description, explanation), the methods of demonstration (graphic and schematic representation, dynamic projection) and the dialogue method. When processing seminar papers, the basic research methods as well as the method of counselling are being used.
Literature
    required literature
  • BÉNASSY-QUÉRÉ, A., B. COEURÉ, P. and J. PISANI-FERRY. Economic Policy: Theory and Practice. New York, Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-5322736. info
  • FOTHERGILL, S. - Guy, N. Retreat from the Regions. London: Jessica Kigsley Publishers. 1990. ISBN 1-85302-100-8. info
  • VANHOVE, N., KLAASSEN, L.H. Regional Policy - A European Approach. Aldershot. Avenbury. Gower Publishing Company Limited, 1987. ISBN 0-566-05413-2. info
    recommended literature
  • BACHTLER, J. et al. EU Cohesion Policy in practice: What does it achieve? London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016. ISBN 978-1783487219. info
  • ?SLUND, A. How capitalism was built: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-683821. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zápočet: docházka, zpracování seminární práce na dané téma a její prezentace ve výuce.
Zkouška: ústní
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms summer 2021.
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