China's Economy

22B1539

Bachelor

English

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

The module has 4 teaching hours per week during the semester. Open to students from all study programmes; either as “Studium Generale” in other faculties or as an elective module in an economic sciences study programme. This economics module teaches the broad fundamentals of growth, development and international economics, and applies these to China in order to facilitate analysis and classification of historical as well as current and future economic developments of this major global player in a larger context.

I. Long-term determinants of growth & China - Accumulation vs. productivity - Human capital and population development - Catch up: Innovation vs. imitation II. Basic developmental factors & China: - Historical overview - Government, culture, inequality - Geography - Development policy and strategies III. The role of China in the global economy - Economic relations with other regions - Currency management - IMF and oher forums: WTO, development financial institutions (DFIs), BRICS, APEC

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration

Written examination: in accordance with the valid study regulations

The requirements are specified in the respective lectures.

Students who opt into this module develop a fundamental understanding of the theoretical instruments required to multidimensionally analyse long-term economic developments. Various developmental strategies can be weighed against each other in terms of their success prospects.

Students develop a differentiated awareness of the problems in connection with growth and development of the Chinese economy.

Presentation of relevant data and graphic interpretation are promoted as technical competencies. This enables students to analyse China's economic role in the world and the dynamic of the Chinese economy, and also to gain a broad and deep understanding of the underlying economic mechanisms.

Students can reconstruct and conduct their own discourses in the area of growth and development with regard to the Chinese economy and its effects on the global economy.

Students will be able to creatively use a selected set of economic tools and develop possible solutions.

Students can analytically comprehend spatial and temporal conflict dimensions of growth and development and present arguments to justify their own positions.

Students will have developed an ability to abstract that allows them to apply economic concepts to current economic policy issues and make a multidimensional assessment.

• Skala, Martin

• Skala, Martin
• Lackner, Hendrik