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International Industrial Economics – Program

Augusto Ninni, 2013/2014

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The teacherMay I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni

(specialized in industrial policy and energy markets)

Times of the lessons: 11-13 on Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. When to start ? 11.00 or 11.15 ?

When to see students : on Thursday, office hours: 10-12 and 4:6 pm

Where: Padiglione Feroldi, 1° floor; augusto.ninni@unipr.it

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Program of the course To analyze many issues at a microeconomic

level, mixing industrial and international economics

To utilize a (relatively) non academic, i.e. practical approach

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The course has 7 parts1. Textbook industrial economics2. Multinational and global value chains3. National microeconomic (= industrial)

policies 4. Energy and environmental market5. Transnational organizations 6. Lectures by specialized speakers (Goldstein,

Masina, Cordes, maybe Lupi)7. Presentations by the students (around 8

groups)

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Program for non attending peopleLipczynski Wilson Goddard “Industrial organization: Competition,

Strategy, Policy”, FT Prentice Hall 2009 (3 copies hold by the University Library);

Isabel Faeth, “Determinants of foreign direct investments: a tale of nine theoretical models”, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 165-196 (electronic journals from the library);

From Internet:Koen De Backer, Norihiko Yamano, International Comparative Evidence on

Global Value Chains OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper, 2012/03;

Economic Commission, EU Competitiveness Report 2012 (chapters 2 and 3);FDI Policy Instruments: Advantages and Disadvantages , Working Paper

UNIDO 2009/01Xavier Vives, Industrial policy, chapter 4 of the EEAG Report on the

European Economy, CESifo 2008

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Program for attending people…The aforementioned texts are a background: they have to

support my slidesMy slides are the main course input You should read the background texts and take account of

them for the written papersYou do not need to read parts of texts referring to topics

not presented on the slides

My slidesIsabel Faeth, “Determinants of foreign direct

investments: a tale of nine theoretical models”, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 165-196 (electronic journals from the library);

Slides by the speakers (Goldstein, Cordes, Masina, Lupi)

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I will leave you my slides after the lesson (sometimes some days after the lesson)

The lesson slides will be on my Internet site: however the access requires a password

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The examinationThe mark (out of thirty) will be the sum of two

parts: A paper written on the day of the examination .

Students will meet four questions. The questions are about topics discussed during the course, including those presented by the speakers.

plus The result of the possible presentation and

following discussion (from 0/30 to 3/30) shown during the course

The time allowed is 2 hours