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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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| Language : | Langue française |
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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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| Available on Campus HEC-Ulg |
| Available on Campus HEC-Ulg |
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