Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2011-12

Esta asignatura es de especialidad en un área, el crecimiento económico, íntimamente ligada a cursos de macroeconomía. Es por ello que los estudiantes ya han tenido un curso previo de introducción a la macroeconomía.

Las asignaturas con la etiqueta “macroeconomía” se centran más en la comprensión del ciclo económico, es decir, recesiones, expansiones, y las políticas de estabilización. Con este curso, se trata de ahondar en la comprensión de la tendencia de largo plazo del PIB per cápita, y de las políticas que pueden modificarla.

Se encuadra dentro de las materias de Análisis Económico.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2011-12

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity to find and analyse information.
  • CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
  • CG9 : Capacity to synthesise.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA2 : Use computer, I.T. and communications technology tools as a matter of course in all of one's professional activities.
  • CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE10 : Capacity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired to solve theoretical and applied economic problems.
  • CE11 : Analytical skills for developing theoretical frameworks that simplify study of the real economy and the capacity to set appropriate levels of abstraction when studying different economic questions.
  • CE3 : Bring a rational approach to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
  • CE5 : Issue expert reports on specific economic situations (international, national or regional) or on sectors of the same.
  • CE6 : Draft economic management projects at international, national or regional level.
  • CE8 : Identify the sources of relevant economic information and their content.
  • CE9 : Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • To understand the main determinants of growth in per capita income.
  • To increase comprehension of the wide divergence observed between different countries in terms of income levels and of the significant changes in the long term growth rates of certain economies.
  • To familiarise students with the fundamentals of economic analysis relating to important growth models such as the Solow model (with and without human capital) and the endogenous growth model based on R&D investment.
  • To introduce students to data analysis

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2011-12

El objetivo de esta asignatura es entender los principales determinantes del crecimiento de la renta per cápita. Lo cual debe llevar a avanzar en la comprensión de la gran varianza en niveles de renta observada entre países, y los fuertes cambios en la tasa de crecimiento a largo plazo de ciertas economías. Así mismo, se pretende familiarizar al alumno con los fundamentos del análisis económico relacionados con importantes modelos de crecimiento tales como el de Solow (con y sin capital humano) y el de crecimiento endógeno basado en la inversión en I+D, e introducir al estudiante al análisis de datos.

 

 

General

Code: 35015
Lecturer responsible:
Pérez Sebastián, Fidel
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,50
Practical credits: 0,90
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Area: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Theoretical credits: 1,5
    Practical credits: 0,9
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught