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Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction
- Week 1 - Centrally planned economy: its origins, evolution and collapse
Dear Students, In this module we will discuss the origins of a centrally planned economy, its major characteristics, evolution, attempts of its reform and history of its collapse, agenda of market transition in 1990s and its major components such as macroecono... - Week 2 - Post-communist transition and its outcomes
Dear Students, In this week we will discuss political economy of transition, controversies over a transition strategy, and first results of transition (at the end of 1990s), interrelations between market and democracy, and between economic and political transi... - Week 3 - The role of external actors in post-communist transition and economic reforms in Asia
Dear students, In this module we will discuss the role of external actors (IMF, World Bank, WTO, EU, etc.) in economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, cumulative results of transition in early/mid 2010s, specific... - Week 4 - Market reforms in the Arab world, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Dear students, In this module we will discuss market reforms in the Arab world (including the period of Arab Spring), Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, summary of emerging-market reforms since 1980s.There will be 5 parts of video-lectures of 7-25 minutes leng... - Week 5 - Emerging markets and their role in global economy
Dear students, In this module we will discuss causes and consequences of emerging market-crises in 1980s and 1990s, impact of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 on emerging-market economies, the increasing role of emerging-market economies in the global ... - Week 6 - EMEs, globalization and international trade
Dear students, In this module we will discuss consequences of globalization, changes in international financial institutions, emerging-market economies and global and regional trade systems.There will be 5 parts of video-lectures of 12-20 minutes length. You c...
Prerequisite
Instructors
Marek Dabrowski
Professor
Department of Applied Economics
Editor
The National Research University 'School of Advanced Studies in Economics' (EHESE) in Moscow was founded in 1992 on the initiative of Russian economists.
A state university since 2001, initially under the supervision of the Ministry of Economic Development, it has been a higher education and research establishment directly attached to the government of the Russian Federation since 2008. Its current status as a national research university of Russia was conferred in 2009, following an inter-university competition.
It is known internationally as the Higher School of Economics (HSE).
In addition to Moscow, the school has three subsidiary campuses: in St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm.
Regularly ranked in the Top 100 of the world's best universities by the QS World University Rankings, it is the second most reputed4 in Russia.
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