Foreign students graduate courses

Guido montani

Improve the knowledge of the process of European Integration and, more generally, of international economic integration.

Some topics will be discussed in a seminar form. A special bibliography will be suggested by the teacher.

International integration and European integration. The political economy of European integration. The evolution of institutions. Compulsory order and spontaneous order. The historical development of the international political economy.

The foundation and the European institution. From the ECSC to the Common Market. Economic integration and political integration.

The development of the Common Market. The unspoken pillars of the Common Market. The Common Agricultural Policy. The internal market. Economic integration and comparative costs. Free trade area and Custom union.

The building of the Monetary and Economic Union. From autarchy to convertibility. The crisis of the Seventies. The European Monetary System. A Monetary Union without Economic Union. The theory of optimum currency area and money as a public good. The stability and growth pact.

The European budget and the European policies. The regional policy and the economic and cohesion policy. The industrial policy and the research and technological policy. Growth and employment policy. The environment and sustainable development policy. Foreign and security policy.
Fiscal federalism in Europe. The supranational policy of aggregate demand.

The European Union and international integration. A multipolar and cooperative world. Global public goods. A government for Europe. Political realism, federalism and cosmopolitanism. Institutions, political science and economics.

John Pinder, The European Union. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.

John McCormick, Understanding the European Union, Palgrave, 2008.

El-Agraa A. (ed), The European Union. Economics and Policies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.

Artis M., Nixson F. (eds),The Economics of the European Union. Policy and Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2007.

Baldwin R., Wyplosz C., The Economics of European Integration, McGraw-Hill International, Maidenhead, 2004.

Guido Montani, “The role of the European Budget and the European Economic Policy”, in The Federalist, n. 3, 2005.
Other suggested:

– Cohen B., The Future of Money, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2004.

– Duncan R., The Dollar Crisis. Causes, Consequences, Cures, Wiley & Sons, London, 2007.

_ Fiorentini R., Montani G., “Global Imbalances and the Transition to a Symmetric World Monetary System”, in Perspectives on Federalism, Vol. II., n. 1, 2010.

– I. Mateos y Lago, R. Duttagupta and R. Goyal, The Dabate on the International Monetary System, IMF Staff Position Note, SPN/09/26, November 2009.

– Stiglitz J. E., “Global Public Goods and Global Finance: does Global Governance ensure that the Global Public Interest is Served?” in J-Ph. Touffut, (ed), Advancing Public Goods, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006.

– U.N., Report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on the Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, New York, 2009 (Rapporto Stiglitz).

– Wolf M., Fixing global Finance, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008

– Zhou Xiaochuan, Reform the International Monetary System, Website of the People’s Bank of China, 2009

ASSESSMENT:

Oral examination