Economics of international integration
Course: International economic relations (commerce and finance)
Structural unit: Educational and scientific institute of international relations
Title
Economics of international integration
Code
ОК7
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
To know regularities of establishing trade agreements; mechanisms of integration policy in economic union; peculiarities of monetary and financial integration; forms of economic disintegration processes; examples of sectoral economic integration.
To be able to systematize preconditions for economic integration; analyze effects of economic integration and disintegration; compare alternative directions of integration policy; do practical steps to implement integration policy at various stages of economic integration; analyze trends in sectoral integration; analyze regulation of trade in particular goods within integration blocs.
Communication within evaluation of the effects of economic integration and disintegration; assessment of readiness for economic integration.
To make and reason a decision on possible means of implementing integration policy; expanding foreign trade relations under trade integration.
Form of study
External form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
- To know theoretical aspects and main regulation tools for various form of international economic relations.
- To be able to analyze reasons and effects of trends in international economic relations.
- To have basic skills of searching and analysis of legal documents, analytical information and statistical data sources.
- To know English or other foreign languages for better opportunities for review of legal acts of integration blocs
Course content
Module 1. Trade integration.
1.Types and effects of preferential trade agreements.
2.Areas of deep trade integration.
3. Stages of trade integration.
Module 2. Sectoral and monetary integration.
4.Economic Union.
5.Monetary and financial integration.
6.Economic disintegration.
7.Sectoral economic integration.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. База навчальної і наукової інформації про ЄС. Центр досконалості Жана Моне Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка (https://e-learning.iir.edu.ua/course/view.php?id=29&lang=uk).
2. Розвиток новітніх форм міжнародної економічної інтеграції на початку 21 століття. К., 2016.
3. Угода про асоціацію між Україною і ЄС. (https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/984_011).
4. Чугаєв О.А. Валютна інтеграція в Європейському Союзі К., 2010.
5. Міжнародні економічні відносини: практикум / за ред.. О.І. Шниркова. – Київ, 2018.
6. Acharya R., ed. by. Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System. WTO, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
7. European Central Bank (http://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html).
8. European Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/).
9. Regional Trade Agreements Information System (http://rtais.wto.org/UI/PublicMaintainRTAHome.aspx).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, case study
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Module work 1 (case study presentation) – up to 50 points.
2.Module control work 2 (test) – up to 50 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
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