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ECON 431Intemational Economic Policy

Faculty
Arts
Offered
Winter
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1982–83 to 1994–95 (before that, 1974–75 to 1981–82 used the number for Advanced International Economics); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Analysis of selected policy problems of open economics from an institutional perspective. Topics include GATT and trade policy, customs union, new international economic order, multinational firms, exchange rate management and international monetary reform.

As printed in the 1987–88 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: ECON 301, 302

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1974–75 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1987–88 to 1994–95 8 calendars

Analysis of selected policy problems of open economics from an institutional perspective. Topics include GATT and trade policy, customs union, new international economic order, multinational firms, exchange rate management and international monetary reform.

Prereq: ECON 301, 302

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

1982–83 to 1986–87 5 calendars

Analysis of selected policy problems of open economies, such as optimum tariff and balance of payments stabilization, international capital flows, monetary and fiscal policy mix, multinational firms, international monetary reform and the new international economic order. Prereq: ECON 301, 302, 331

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

1974–75 to 1981–82 7 calendars

Another title: Advanced International Economics, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

Analysis of selected topics such as the theory of trade blocs and systems of customs unions, economic integration, devaluation theory, theory of dominant currencies, international transmission of inflation, gold/bimetalic/dollar standard theories and optimum currency areas.

Fall term

Prerequisites: Economics 301*, 302*, 331*, 332*

* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.