000458L - ECONOMICS GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

courses

ID:

000458L

Duration (hours):

48

CFU:

SSD:

ECONOMIA POLITICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE/ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (12/02/2026 - 12/05/2026)

Course Objectives

The formative objective for the student consists of achieving the following learning outcomes.

Knowledge and understanding.

The course aims at providing the tools of economic analysis for the understanding of the economic-business dynamics linked to global markets in light of the increased information available. The graduate must know the international economic dynamics and must be able to use the methods and tools of analysis typical of modern economic systems.

Applying knowledge and understanding.

The course aims to transfer to the student the ability: i) to critically interpret international economic dynamics; ii) to know how to both theoretically and empirically describe the economic phenomena linked to economic growth and globalization; iii) be able to understand and carry out comparative studies on productivity/performance, both at the level of the single firms and the aggregate economic system by exploiting the increased information made available by the digitization processes.

Course Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Teaching Methods

Traditional classes, practices with ad hoc software, assignments

Assessment Methods

The verification of the learning outcomes will be carried out through a written and oral examination. In particular:

Knowledge and ability to understand

The verification of knowledge and comprehension skills will be carried out through a written and an oral examination that will cover the whole program with particular attention to the theoretical part and to the critical interpretation of graphs and tables.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

The ability to apply knowledge and understanding will be evaluated through a laboratory of empirical economics in which students will have the chance to work in small groups at the preparation of a presentation focused on the practical case. Students’ ability to analyse in person and in team the productivity/competitiveness dynamics at a firm, sector or country level will be assessed.

The score of the exam is assigned by a vote expressed in thirtieths. The final grade will be an average of the written-oral exam (weight 70%) and the dissertation (weight 30%).

Texts

- lecture notes (slides), references to scientific articles and book chapters will be provided during the course;

- Massimo Del Gatto, Trends di Economia Internazionale, Globalizzazione, investimenti e commercio estero. Rubbettino Editore, 2018

- P. Krugman, M. Obstfeld, M. Melitz, International Economics: Theory and Policy, Pearson Ed., ultima edizione;

- David Weil, Economic Growth: International Edition 3rd (2012), Ed. Pearson

The economic effects of technological progress are studied, with particular attention to the concept of productivity, understood as the ultimate cause of economic growth at the level of both the single enterprise and the economic system as a whole. The course also analyses the link between causes and economic effects of the globalization process: market integration, digitalization, fall in transport and communication costs, global value chains. Throughout the course, particular attention is paid to the availability of data and to issues related to the estimation/measurement of the above phenomena.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Seminars and laboratories given by external scholars will be part of the course.

Office hours: Thursday, 10am (to be agreed by email).

E-mail: m.delgatto@unich.it

Course web page: http://docenti.unich.it/delgatto/delgatto_web/teaching/intecon_pe/intecon_global_mkts.html