Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2018-19
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2018-19
Course context for academic year 2018-19
Crecimiento Económico es la tercera asignatura de la secuencia de Macroeconomía en el Grado de Economía, después de las asignaturas Introducción a la Macroeconomía y Macroeconomía Intermedia.
Se encuadra dentro de la materia Análisis Económico.
El objetivo de esta asignatura es proporcionar al estudiante los conocimientos básicos, tanto a nivel teórico como empírico, para comprender y analizar los problemas del crecimiento económico a largo plazo. Además, enseña al estudiante a utilizar el razonamiento analítico para plantear problemas económicos y resolverlos.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
General Competences (CG)
- CG1 : Capacity to find and analyse information.
- CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
- CG9 : Capacity for synthesis.
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 2018-19
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