International Economic Policy · 2023/24
Master in International Markets
   

 
 


Antonio Quesada
Office 314
Departament d'Economia
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Avinguda de la Universitat 1
43204 Reus (Catalonia)

Office hours (February - May 2024)
Tuesday     08.00-09.00 and 16.00-18.00
Thursday    08.00-11.00

Office hours can be requested at aqa@urv.cat 


Classroom A2.3
· 15 April 2024 - 29 May 2024

Monday 15.00-17:00  and  Wednesday
15.00-17:00
 
Sessions 
April
15
17
22
24 29



May
6
8
13
15 20 22 27 29























 
 


Topics    
 

1. Introduction - world macroeconomics with sovereign states
   
  Some trilemmas |  Main issues  |  Capitalism, finance, democracy 
 

2. Global power - geopolitics, geoeconomics, Rise of the Rest
   
  Zhou Xiaochuan (2009) 'Reform the international monetary system'
   
  P-O Gourinchas · H Rey · E Farhi (2011) 'Reforming the IMS'  pdf 
       Rule-based international order  1  2  3   
       Harshad Shah (2024) 'How & why petrodollar could end soon  
       Why did Europe conquest the world? 
(By 1914 only China, Japan and the Ottoman Empire resisted European conquest)

3. Global finance - dollar, international monetary system, inequality, trilemmas
  
   The Triffin dilemma  
     Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (2011) 'The Triffin dilemma revisited'
     M Maggiori · E Farhi (2017) 'The new Triffin dilemma'  
     Martin Ji (2023) New Triffin dilemma  
      Michael Bordo · RN McCauley (2017): 'Triffin: dilemma or myth  
     Hélène Rey (2013) 'Dilemma not trilemma: the global financial cycle...'  
     'Capital flows and domestic and international order'  1  2   
     'Trapped in the trilemma: when security trumps economics'  
 
   Daniela Gabor (2016) 'The impossible repo trinity'  
   
4. Global integration - tension integration vs fragmentation, European integration
     Hanno Beck · Aloys Prinz (2012) 'The trilemma of a monetary union  
     Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (2011) Padoa-Schioppa's inconsistent quartet  
     François Villeroy de Galhau (2017) 'The future of the euro area'   
          (Governor of the Bank of France)
    
  TARGET 2 |  T2  

5. Global futures - technology, society, ecosystem

Links  
 VoxEU (CEPR)  |  Naked capitalism  |  Bill Mitchell's blog  |
     
Country economy  |  Mario Draghi's speech 26/07/12     

Evaluation  

Based on a 20 minutes presentation (29th of May).

The presentation should
- summarize the main ideas from at least three books taken from this list,
- connect those ideas between themselves and with what has been explained in class, and
- include some personal analysis or opinion (criticizing or reinforcing the ideas).

The speaker should address questions from the audience.



Off topic  

  M McLeay, A Radia, R Thomas (2014) 'Money creation in the modern economy', Source: Bank of England 
  'The role of banks, non- banks and the centralbank in the money creation process', Source: Deutsche Bundesbank  
  S&P (2013) 'Banks cannot and do not "lend out" reserves'  
  'The Fed explained. What the central bank does'      
  Dirk Ehnts (2022) 'Modern Monetary Theory: the right compass for decision-making'

  Average faces 1  2  3  4   |    Game 
  Face research   

 1% vs 99%
  GDP per capita (Angus Maddison) |  
      1820-2010  A few  Many   1945-2010

  Maps: what does 'the world' look like? According to whom? 
Asians vs Westerners (R Nisbett 2003: How Asians and Westerners think differently and why, p. 141)  
Possible futures (Paul Raskins,  Taxonomy of the future        
      
Convergence?


           
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