Economic Environment Analysis

General information

Type:	OBL	Curs:	3	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 3	F. Xavier Mena López	Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad	CAT, ESP

Prerequisites

As established by BBA Programme Management, students have to have taken the previous Economics courses.

Important:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the content presented here may be subject to change to adapt it to any possible restrictions imposed by the competent authorities.

Previous Knowledge

Knowledge acquired in previous academic years, in particular, through courses and activities offered by the Department of Economics (Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, etc.)

Workload distribution

The time students need to dedicate is distributed between group learning activities to prepare and present in class, acquire knowledge via readings and studying various documents and case studies.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

The course applies the economic knowledge students acquired in previous courses to analyse and understand the global economic environment.

Course Learning Objectives

Acquisition of knowledge regarding the environment companies and organizations operate in, as well as the formulation of short, mid and long-term scenarios.

Development of skills to gather, analyse and interpret economic indicators.

Integrate analyses of the global economic environment into decision-making processes in companies and organisations from a functional as well as industry and geographical perspective.

Competences

2. Application of knowledge to achieve results
1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring

2. Application of knowledge to achieve results

1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring

CONTENT

1. Countries in a global/local framework
2. Globalization and the world economy in the early 21st century
3. Selected global economy debates/challenges

1. Countries in a global/local framework

2. Globalization and the world economy in the early 21st century

3. Selected global economy debates/challenges

Relation between Activities and Contents

	1	2	3
Class presentations
Class participation
Final paper
Final exam

Methodology

An active and participatory methodology is applied based on analysing economic models, databases and various information sources, as well as case study discussions.

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Description	%
Class presentations	30
Class participation	20
Final paper	30
Final exam	20

Assessment criteria

Assessment of all the course topics through a final written exam.
Ongoing assessment through active participation and group work.

Timetable and sections

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 3	F. Xavier Mena López	Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad

Timetable Year 3

From 2022/9/5 to 2022/11/28:
Each Monday from 10:45 to 13:15. (Except: 2022/9/26, 2022/10/17 and 2022/11/7)

Friday2022/12/16:
From 13:45 to 16:00.
From 13:45 to 16:30.

Economic Environment Analysis (2225.YR.000416.1)