The course concentrates on topics on:

1. International Organizations definition
2. Preconditions of the IOs creation
3. Basic attributes of the IOs
4. IOs classification
5. Roles and functions of the IOs
6. Historical evolution of the IOs

The course consists of:
lectures (8 hours, attendance in every lecture is required)
home assignment (2-3 hours work with internet and particular international organization)
essay (1-3 pages)

First 30 students will be taken to the course. First priority will be given to the exchange/degree students of the faculty of economics and administration.
Compulsory and binding enrollment by email to business.school@uta.fi during 06.09.-16.09.2010
Inform your name and student number.

The seminar lasts for the whole academic year 2010-2011.  More information will be announced later on the MGE'S web-pages.

Seminar ( 2 h/week). Seminar Schedule is to be announced later.

Study Guide: Special Courses in International Economics ann Finance, KTALS221.

Overview of the foundations of behavioral finance. Issues and limits concerning both the "efficient markets" and "behavioral" approaches will be examined. Direct applications to the financial markets will be examined.

Literature:

1. Kihn, John: Behavioral Finance 101, 2010.

This is an advanced course especially for MGE-students and for advanced studies in economics (KTALS211: Special Courses in Public Economics)  and for post-graduate studies in economics (KTALJ140).
This course is very suitable also for advanced and post-graduate  studies in health economics and in other relevant subjects.

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Course outline:

The course will cover a range of approaches which can be described as ?cost-benefit analysis? and which can be used to weigh up advantages and disadvantages of health care interventions.

It will provide examples of methods which can be used to measure many of the various outcomes which result from the use of health care technologies. It will then show how these building blocks can be combined to form economic evaluations in accordance with cost-benefit thinking.

Starting with the topic ?economic evaluation: some theory and some practice? (Rissanen) the course will continue with largely non-welfarist approaches to the practical application of economic evaluation to health care (Booth). The latter half of the course will deal, amongst other things, with assessing the value of medical tests, estimating transition probabilities and Markov modelling (Josselin).

Course objectives

By the end of the course, participants should:

• have some insight into the analytical perspective and principles underlying the application of economic evaluation to health care, such as utility, equity, efficiency and decision analytic modelling
• be familiar with many of the methods used in different types of economic appraisal
• be better able to assess research which includes estimates of cost, health status measures, Markov modelling, etc. and which can be used to inform macro-medical decision-making

Modes of study:

The course will consist of a total of 25 hours of active participation and coursework plus either an examination or the undertaking of a critical appraisal of an article provided during the course.

The aim of this master's level course is to provide understanding of modern growth theories (including those that explicitly model innovation as the main engine of growth), with special reference to the circumstances in developing countries. The second part of the course deals with selected issues in development economics, including structural change, the role of finance in development, globalisation and the impacts of foreign aid. Some of the lectures on topics in development economics will be given by guest lecturers from the Aalto University School of Economics and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER).

Lectures (22 h)  will take place on Mondays at 10-12 and Tuesdays at 12-14, starting on February 1.  Lectures will be transmitted by video to the University of Jyväskylä.

An essential part of the course is a term paper written during the course. This essay will be written on a special topic in development agreed beforehand with the course instructor. 60% of the course grade will be based on the final exam and the remaining 40% will be based on the essay. Returning an accepted essay will be obligatory for passing the course.  In the end of the course, we will organise essay seminars (most likely one in Tampere and another in Jyväskylä) with students giving short presentations on their essays.

The course will involve some technical material and therefore it is strongly advisable that students have taken micro and/or macroeconomics at the advanced level before entering this course. In addition, knowledge of techniques in advanced level econometrics will be an asset.

The main text book of the course is Aghion - Howitt (2009): Economics of Growth, MIT Press. The book will be complemented with material from Basu (2003): Analytical Development Economics, as well as journal articles.

TIME SCHEDULE:

Lectures: Mondays at 10-12, Tuesdays at 12-14

1 Feb: Lecture 1 (Pirttilä) Introduction.
7 Feb: Lecture 2 (Pirttilä) Basic Growth Theories.
14 Feb: Lecture 3 (Pirttilä) Endogenous Growth Models.
15 Feb: Lect. 4 (Pirttilä) Endogenous Growth Models II.
21 Feb: Lect. 5 (Pirttilä) Growth Theory: The Relevance to Developing Countries.
22 Feb: Lecture 6 (Pirttilä) Structural Change in Developing Countries.
28 Feb: Lecture (Pirttilä).
1 March: Guest Lecture by Professor Finn Tarp (Head of UNU-WIDER): Aid, Growth and Development.
14 March: Guest Lecture by Anni Heikkilä (PhD Student, Aalto University School of Economics): Microfinance I: Adverse Selection and Empirical Studies.
15 March: Guest Lecture by Dr Khondker Aktaruzzaman (University of Helsinki): Microfinance II: Moral Hazard and Empirical Studies.
21 March: Guest Lecture by Professor Pertti Haaparanta (Aalto University School of Economics): Globalisation and Development.
22 March: Guest Lecture by Dr James Thurlow (UNU-WIDER): Climate Change and Economic Development.

Essay Seminars:

28 March: Tampere
29 March: Jyväskylä

Exams:

Mon 04.04.2011 at 13:00-16:00 (Pinni B3107)
Tue 26.04.2011 at 13:00-16:00 (Pinni A3111)