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| ECON0897-1 | Economic Policy | |||||||||||
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| Duration : | 30h Th | |||||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | Willy Delflys, Didier Reynders | |||||||||||
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| Course contents : | - Introduction (Definitions - Historical viewpoints) - General principles (Voting : a collective decision procedure - Economic classification of public interventions - Agents of the economic policy) - Microeconomic policy (Quantitative & qualitative objectives - Initiative, productive or redistributive interventions) - Macroeconomic policy (Objectives : economic growth - Full employment - Price stability/Objective compatibility/ Instruments : Budget policy - Monetary policy - Exchange policy - Price & income policy/ Budget balance & public debt/Balance of payments : the foreign constraint / Economic policy models) - Sector-based economic policies (Industrial policy - Agricultural policy) - Internationalization of the economic policy. | |||||||||||
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| Course objective : | This course aims at providing the students with the main principles of the economic policy of Belgium | |||||||||||
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| Prerequisites : | ECO 426 Introduction to Economics ECO 425 Macroéconomics ECO 430 Introduction to the Public Economy | |||||||||||
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| Organization : | -22 hours of lectures in class -individual work in the form of a reading file (8 hours of class) -tutorials -webside for the course : course notes and reading file | |||||||||||
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| Written notes : | - GREFFE F., "Politique économique" , Economica, Paris, 1987. - JACQUEMIN A. et TULKENS H., "Fondements d'économie politique", Ed. Universitaires, série prémisses, Bruxelles, 1989, 2ème édition. - KIRSCHEN E.S., "La politique économique contemporaine", Edition de l'ULB, Bruxelles, 1966. - QUADEN G., "Politique économique" , Edition Labor, collection Economie 2000, Bruxelles, 1990, nouvelle édition. | |||||||||||
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| Assessment : | 1sts session assessment : oral examination on the course and the compulsory reading file. Bonus point :students can increase their final mark by a maximum of 2 points by selecting ana rticle among the selection proposed in the optional reading file and presenting it during the oral examination. Students who choose tot do so will not receive a lower mark than that obtained for the compulsory part of the exam 2nd session assessment : idem prolonged 2nd session assessment : idem | |||||||||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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