
Economics of the EU
Program: Managerial Economics
ECTS: 3
Lecturer: Professor Jarosław Kundera
Email: jaroslaw.kundera@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Compulsory
Level: Advanced
Personal information:
https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/user/12113
Lecture
Number of hours: 2h X 15 weeks = 30 hours (1 semester)
Objective:
objectives of the course is to understand the economic rules of functioning of the European Single Market, principles of coordination of European policies, benefits and costs of integration processes, effects of adhesion of Poland to the EU.
Assessment:
Written/oral examination
Term paper ( 40 % ), final examination ( 40% ), class attendance ( 20% )
Contents:
Concepts of European Integration, rules of customs union, from common market to European Single Market, four freedoms of the European Single Markets ( free movement of goods, capital, services, people ), Regional Policy and Structural Funds of the EU, Monetary integration and Euro, Common Agricultural Policy, Migration of labour between Poland and the EU, Free capital mobility and foreign direct investments in Polish economy, Realization of common agricultural and structural policy in Poland
Recommended reading:
- J.D.Hansen, European Integration. An Economic Perspective, Oxford 2001
- W Molle, The Economics of European Integration. Theory, Practice, Policy, Darmouth 1999.
- A. Zervoyianni, G. Argiros, G.Agriorgianakis, European Integration, New York 2006, Richard Baldwin, Charles Wyplosz, The Economics of European Integration, New York 2006