Economics: Advanced Course in Economic Integration

The course covers both regional and multilateral integration, as well as the institutional and economic context in which they take place. For multilateral integration, you find a focus on the challenges the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been grappling with for many years, along with newer issues concerning the balance between economic and non-economic objectives.

For regional integration, you find a focus on tariff analysis – for instance, what does the recent research literature have to say about the effects of President Trump’s trade wars? – as well as on non-tariff barriers, such as technical barriers to trade and trade procedures. You also analyse the effects of trade integration within countries, for example on the labour market and the rise of populist political movements. A key theme throughout the course is disintegration in various forms, including anti-globalisation and economic nationalism, and the use of trade barriers as a tool in economic diplomacy, such as sanctions.

Lastly, you get a detailed overview of empirical and theoretical methods for evaluating the effects of economic integration, and it trains you to explain complex analyses to both experts and non-experts.

In addition to traditional lectures, you encounter practical tasks that allow you to train critical skills, as well as earn bonus points that are added to the exam results. As such, the examination is a combination of voluntary activities which will earn you bonus points, and a mandatory exam at the end of the course.

Voluntary (but strongly recommended) activities that can earn you bonus points:

• Task 1: Present a research article to the rest of the group.
• Task 2: Write and present a research overview on a topic of your choosing.
• Task 3: Design and present an idea for a research project of your choosing.

At the end of the course, there is a mandatory written exam. The exam is open book, so you may bring all the course literature if you like. The exam is designed to test that you have understood, and can use the literature appropriately to independently analyse questions that are typically based on real-world empirical events.

Prerequisites

Students admitted to the Master Programme in Economics are qualified for this course. For other students, at least 90 ECTS-credits in economics are needed for admission to this course. These credits must include an intermediate course in economic integration, e.g. NEKH71 “Economic Integration”, or an equivalent course.

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 18,750
First payment: SEK 18,750

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.