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Industrial policy

Study: Second cycle

Semester: First semester

Professor:    

Section:      Local economic development and politics

ECTS:          5,5

Exam results

Course content

  1. Defining industry and industrialization criteria,
  2. Industrial and development policy within economic policy,
  3. Action of industrial policy (horizontal and vertical),
  4. Stages of industrialization and share of industry in GDP,
  5. Application of industrial policy in practice,
  6. Industrial policy in the EU,
  7. Access to EU industrial policy (horizontal and vertical measures),
  8. Outgoing and incoming industries,
  9. The previous development of BiH industry,
  10. Phases of industrialization in BiH,
  11. Common characteristics and new guidelines of the industrial policy of countries in transition,
  12. Industrial policy and microeconomic goals,
  13. The structure of industrial production in BiH,
  14. (un)employment and industry,
  15. Change in the structure of industrial production and deindustrialization,
  16. Industry and international exchange,
  17. Comparative advantages of the processing industry of BiH,
  18. Creating an effective industrial policy,
  19. Industrial policy in East Asian countries,
  20. Re-industrialization.

Objective of the course

Get acquainted with economic and industrial policy and its subject of study, and explain the operation of industrial policy (horizontal and vertical) and its application in practice (vertical and horizontal measures) of the EU and BiH. Analyze the development of industry in BiH and measure its power (deindustrialization and reindustrialization)

 

Teaching methods

Lectures are conducted with the use of teaching aids, schemes and graphic displays, as well as active learning techniques and with the active participation of students. During the lectures, problems from different public sectors are analyzed and solved (case studies). In addition, students create seminar papers that are presented and a discussion is held on the subject problem with all students.

 

Knowledge testing methods

  • Lectures – 5 points
  • Test – 20 points
  • Seminar paper – 35 points
  • Oral exam – 40 points

Students' knowledge is checked through a test. In addition, students create seminar papers that are presented and a discussion is held on the subject problem with all students. The final oral exam evaluates students' theoretical knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to solving practical problems in the creation of industrial policy.

Competences

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  1. create and propose the basic guidelines of industrial policy to the authorities, analyze the structure of the industry according to the unique classification and their importance in the country's economy,
  2. solve the problems of industry at the micro level and employment at the macro level,
  3. analyze global industrial competition and the global market,
  4. propose decisions on outgoing and incoming industries, deindustrialization and reindustrialization

Literature

Mandatory

  1. Economic policy - with elements of the Croatian economy, Crkvenac Mate, Informator, Zagreb, 1997.
  2. Economic policy, Hodžić K, Čejvanović F., 2010, Faculty of Economics Tuzla.
  3. Walser, CD: Industrial Policy in the Process Transition, Verlag Paul Haupt Bern, Stuttgart, Wien, 1999.
  4. Industrial Economics - Issues and Perspectives, Second Edition, London, 1994

Mandatory

  1. Prokopijević, Miroslav, 2009. European Union. 2nd amended edition, JP Službeni glasnik, Belgrade. (ch. 9: Industrial policy).
  2. Development of industrial policy in FBiH, 2009. www.fmeri.gov.ba.
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