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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Economic Policies Theory

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 156-9501/01
Abbreviation EPT
Course title Economic Policies Theory
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jaromír Gottvald, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Theoretical and methodological foundations of economic policy. regulatory and system-forming economic policy. Objectives, instruments and economic policy makers. Economic and political decision-making. Information and Economic Policy. Creating a regulatory economic policy, its background. The main components of regulatory economic policy: monetary policy, fiscal policy, external trade and monetary policy, income policy. System-Economic Policy: principles, goals, tools. Importance of theoretical economic policy for applied economic policy. Theoretical sources of economic policy. Development and goals of economic policy. Conceptual approaches to economic policy.

Literature

ATKINSON, B.; BAKER, P.; MILWARD, B. Economic Policy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 0-333-65047-6 .
SIEBERT, H. Economic Policy Issues of the New Economy. Berlin: Springer, 2002. ISBN 3-540-43698-7 .
Journals: Eastern European Economics (2010-2012)etc.
BENT HANSEN The economic theory of fiscal policy. London : Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-31399-6
FERGUSON, P. R. - FERGUSON G. J.: Industrial Economics, Issues and Perspectives. Macmillan Publishing, International Edition 1994.
WILLIAM J. BAUMOL, and ALAN S. BLINDER Economics : Principles & Policy. 12th ed Mason : South-Western Cengage Learning,2012. ISBN 978-0-538-45369-1
Miller, N. C.: Open Economy Macroeconomics. Edward Elgar 2006.
Minford, P. - Peel, D.: Advanced Macroeconomics. Edward Elgar 2002.
Robinson, C.: Governments, Competition and Utility Regulation. Edward Elgar 2005.
Bonker, F.: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Central-Eastern Europe.
Edward Elgar 2006.

Advised literature

BROWN, S.W. Macroeconomics. New Jersey : Prentice Hall International, 1988.
WHITELEY, P. Economic Policy Volume I. and II.. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998. ISBN 1-85898-115-8.
BAUMOL Wiliam J. Economic Principles and Policy. 9th edition. South-Westwrn Publ., 2003. ISBN 0030355397
HAHN, R. W.: Antitrust Policy and Vertical Reestraints. Brooking Institution Press 2006.
HYLTON, KEIT N.: Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution. Cambridge University Press 2003. RASMUSSEN, P.N., DELORS, J.: The New Social Europe. www.pes.org 2007.
MUSGRAVE PEGGY B. Tax policy in the global economy : selected essays of Peggy B. Musgrave. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2002. ISBN 1-840-64313-7
Economic policy in the international economy : essays in honor of Assaf Razin / edited by Elhanan Helpman, Efraim Sadka. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-81519-3