CST:CZS21 Economic Aspects of the Transi - Course Information
CZS21 Economic Aspects of the Transition Process
Pan-university studiesSpring 2003
- Extent and Intensity
- 4/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Ing. Libor Žídek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Thomas Donaldson Sparling, B.A.
Pan-university studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Věra Honzíková - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Central European Studies Program (programme CST, CESP)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
- Tesol Teacher Education Program (programme CST, TTEP)
- Course objectives
- An introduction to recent economic developments in the Czech Republic and other Central European countries. One thematic block deals with such issues as privatization, monetary policy, inflation and international trade. A second discusses public sector transformation, presenting basic characteristics of the transformation of the public sector in the Czech Republic compared to those in developed countries as well as other post-Communist countries.
- Syllabus
- 1. Economic History of Czechoslovakia 2. Economic, Political and Social Consequences of Transition in the former Czechoslovakia 3. The Process of restructuring Czech industry, focused on the way of privatization 4. Monetary policy of the transition process 5. Exchange rate policy 6. Czech Inflation in Nineties 7. Development of the Czech international trade 8. Introduction to the Transformation of the Public Sector 9. Tax Reform in the Czech Republic 10. Fiscal Policy in the Transition Period 11. Fiscal decentralisation in the Czech republic, local government budgets 12. Transformation of a selected public sector branch (case study), Health Care Reform 13. Third Sector (NNO) Development
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- lectures, a written exam
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every other week. - Teacher's information
- http://www.rect.muni.cz/ois/students/special_programs%2C_individual_courses/cesp
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2003, recent)
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