Augusto Ninni, 2013/2014 1

The teacher May I introduce myself … Augusto Ninni (specialized in industrial policy and energy markets) Times of the lessons: on Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. When to start ? or ? When to see students : on Thursday, office hours: and 4:6 pm Where: Padiglione Feroldi, 1° floor; 2

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 3

The course has 7 parts 1. Textbook industrial economics 2. Multinational and global value chains 3. National microeconomic (= industrial) policies 4. Energy and environmental market 5. Transnational organizations 6. Lectures by specialized speakers (Goldstein, Masina, Cordes, maybe Lupi) 7. Presentations by the students (around 8 groups) 4

Program for non attending people Lipczynski 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 (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 2009/01 Xavier Vives, Industrial policy, chapter 4 of the EEAG Report on the European Economy, CESifo

Program for attending people… The aforementioned texts are a background: they have to support my slides My slides are the main course input You should read the background texts and take account of them for the written papers You do not need to read parts of texts referring to topics not presented on the slides My slides Isabel Faeth, “Determinants of foreign direct investments: a tale of nine theoretical models”, Journal of Economic Surveys (2009), vol. 23, no. 1, pp (electronic journals from the library); Slides by the speakers (Goldstein, Cordes, Masina, Lupi) 6

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 7

The examination The 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 8