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| ECON0306-3 | General economics
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| Duration : | 60h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Fabienne Fecher-Bourgeois |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long, with partial in January |
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Course contents :
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- Concepts and basic principles of economic analysis
- Microeconomics
- National accounts
- Macroeconomics and economic policy
- Inflation and unemployment
- Banking system
- International trade
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Define with appropriate terms the main economic concepts;
- Understand and explain behaviors and fundamental mechanisms on the level of both individual agents (firms, consumers) and national and international economy;
- Represent graphically the relations between economic variables on the level of both micro- and macroeconomic analysis;
- Explain with a graph the impact of the variation of an economic variable on another (comparative statics);
- Synthesize various texts (articles from economic journals or press) in order to complete the oral class;
- Interpret current statistics on aggregates and macroeconomic variables (GDP, public expenditures and taxes, unemployment, inflation, ...);
- Calculate, through simple numerical exercises, economic variables using theoretical models and formulas studied in the class. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| 30h of tutorials |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures and tutorials |
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Recommended or required readings :
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- JURION B., "Economie politique", De Boeck Université, 2013.
- Tutorial book available on MyULg.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written examination in January, June and September |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Teacher :
F. FECHER, Office I.61A - Tel : 04/366 30 69
Email : ffecher@ulg.ac.be
Assistant :
G. MAHIELS, Office I.60 - Tel : 04/366 48 90 Email: gaelle.mahiels@ulg.ac.be(francoise.fortemps@ulg.ac.be
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Assistant-students :
Céline JOISTEN; Charlotte PEIFFER; Benjamin PIRLET; Thibaud SARTENAR; Laura VERVIER; Manon WUINE |
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| Items online : |
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| Microeconomics exercises book |
| Available on myulg |
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