Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2020-21
• CG3: Capacity to apply economic theory to represent real situations.
• CG4: Capacity for teamwork.
• CG5: Capacity for self-learning.
• CG6: Ethical commitment and social responsibility at work, respecting the
environment, being aware and understanding the importance of respect for
fundamental rights, equal opportunities for men and women, universal accessibility for
the disabled and respect for the values of a peaceful, democratic society.
• CG7: Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudice and with precision
and rigor.
• CG8: Capacity for synthesis.
• CE1: Capacity to read Economic research articles in a reasoned fashion and evaluate
them critically, understand their essential contributions and weaknesses.
• CE2: Capacity to understand how the technical problems faced by authors of research
articles have been resolved in each case.
• CE3: Capacity to test theorems and propositions.
• CE5: Capacity to present important economic problems precisely and respond
adequately to solve problems by using the techniques learnt in the different courses,
using theoretical and empirical analyses or simulations if necessary.
GOAL OF THE TOPIC
The course will accomplish two tasks: to provide the basic tools required to study other topics
in macroeconomics (to be developed in the remaining courses of the macro sequence) and to
provide some answers to the fundamental question of why economies grow and why some
countries are much richer than others.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2020-21
General Competences (CG)
- CG2 : Capacitat per a la recerca de dades (naturals i experimentals) i anàlisis d'aquesta informació.
- CG3 : Capacitat d'aplicar teoria econòmica per a representar situacions reals.
- CG4 : Capacitat de treball en equip.
- CG5 : Capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom.
- CG6 : Compromís ètic i responsabilitat social en el treball, respectant el medi ambient, coneixent i comprenent la importància del respecte als drets fonamentals, a la igualtat d'oportunitats entre homes i dones, a l'accessibilitat universal per a les persones amb discapacitat i al respecte als valors propis d'una cultura de pau i valors democràtics.
- CG7 : Analitzar els problemes amb raonament crític, sense prejudicis, amb precisió i rigor.
- CG8 : Capacitat de síntesi.
Specific Competences (CE)
- CE1 : Capacitat de llegir raonadament i d'avaluar de manera crítica articles d'investigació en economia, i copsar-ne les contribucions essencials i les debilitats.
- CE2 : Capacitat d'entendre com s'han resolt en cada cas els problemes tècnics als quals s'han hagut d'enfrontar els autors dels articles d'investigació.
- CE3 : Capacitat de realitzar proves de proposicions i teoremes.
- CE4 : Capacitat de comprendre i replicar les anàlisis empíriques i els experiments de simulació en què es basen les conclusions presentades en els articles d'investigació d'altres autors.
- CE5 : Capacitat de plantejar problemes econòmics rellevants de manera precisa, i de donar resposta adequada a aquests problemes utilitzant les tècniques apreses en els diferents cursos, sustentant-se, si el seu estudi ho requereix, en anàlisis teòriques, empíriques o de simulació.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2020-21
The course will accomplish two tasks: to provide the basic tools required to study other topics
in macroeconomics (to be developed in the remaining courses of the macro sequence) and to
provide some answers to the fundamental question of why economies grow and why some
countries are much richer than others.
General
Code:
41205
Lecturer responsible:
TURINO, FRANCESCO
Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
1,60
Practical credits:
0,40
Distance-base hours:
4,00
Departments involved
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Dept:
FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Area: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Theoretical credits: 1,6
Practical credits: 0,4
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
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UNIVERSITY MASTER'S DEGREE IN QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
Course type: COMPULSORY (Year: 1)