What are the economic functions of financial intermediaries (FIs), and in particular, of commercial banks? The main objective of this course is to address this question by analyzing the imperfections that affect the smooth functioning of financial...
The Spanish economy has undertaken a profound process of modernization during the last decades, and its gradual integration in the EU has been one of the main driving forces of that process. This course is aimed at analyzing the main recent...
The world is now facing a severe environmental crisis. The rising consumption needs in advanced countries as well as in emerging and fast-growing economies, are harming the whole planet. The “take-make-dispose” model of production and consumption is...
This course analyses the incorporation of the Spanish economy into the system of international relations and economic integration. With this focus, it studies the historical formation and the current situation of the main international economic...
Understanding international project management provides crucial insights into operations in a wide range of industries. This course offers a hands-on overview of international project management and economics using actual business situations of...
Game Theory is an area of Mathematics with multiple applications to Economics, Political Science and many sciences. We will study mathematical concepts such as combinatorial methods, fixed point theorems and convexity methods as they are used to...
The course provides an introductory understanding of how the European Union (EU) works as a political system and aims at accomplishing this by using the toolkit of comparative politics. The main aim of the course is to provide American students...
This course is centered on the concept of sustainability and its various shared implications. Initially, students will be made familiar with the history and the present uses of this concept. In addition the concept of Central Europe, an introduction...
This course focuses on agricultural and environmental policies implemented by the EU and the effects of these policies on the economies of some European countries where agriculture is a dominant industry, especially the Mediterranean countries. In...
Combining knowledge from both political science and economics, International Political Economy (IPE) contributes to our understanding of the global economy. By integrating the local, the national, and the global scale, IPE makes it possible to grasp...