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The Economics of European Integration

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 7 January 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 February 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 11 January 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 January 2013

Description

Since the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union (EU) has grown from a small customs union with six member states to become the largest integrated market in the world, with 25 members, 400 million citizens and a combined gross domestic product larger than that of the United States. This course provides an economic analysis of the processes and policies which have driven Europe's economic and political integration, exploring the implications of a single market in which goods and services, labour and capital can move freely.

Learning Outcomes

Aims:
- To critically understand the economic rationale for, and empirical effects of, economic and monetary integration in Europe
- To be able to use micro- and macroeconomic theory to analyse EU policy

Objectives — by the end of the course you will have acquired:
- A knowledge of the history of European political and economic integration since 1945
- An understanding of the institutional structure of the EU
- The ability to use economic theory to analyse preferential trade liberalisation, economic and monetary integration and the welfare effects of EU policy
- A critical understanding of the political economy of integration in Europe

Prerequisites

Any 105 points from the BA, BCom, BForSc, BSc or LLB schedules including ECON104 and ECON105 and at least 22 points above 100 level. RP: ENGL117 or an essay-based course.

Restrictions

ECON339, EURA339

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

ENGL117 or an essay-based course.

Course Coordinators

Nigel Healey and Abel Reyna Rivera

Contact Person

Yvonne Grosch

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay (3,000 words) 50%
Class test (2h) 50%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $682.00

International fee $3,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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