|
Prof.
Dr. Peter Schmidt |
International Business INB 300 |
Reading: Sources for the current (10th) edition (GLOBAL EDITION):
+ additional: Gregory Mankiws "Ten Principles of Economics" (chapter 1) The assessment
is a learning portfolio that will be presented in class Schedule
(preliminary - changes may occur and will be announced in class and
in the following table) -
Syllabus
In this module, we use the AULIS, the E-Learning-Platform of the Hochschule Bremen. We are going to use this group for our internal communication and the uploads of the students. |
No |
Day | Book
Chapter |
Topics | Further
material |
1 |
Mon 22 June | (Mankiw chap. 1) |
Introduction
and “10 Principles of Economics” |
-
Welcome.ppt |
2 |
Tue 23 June | (Mankiw chap. 1) |
Introduction: Basic
problems; economic systems |
- Hierarchy
of goals in market economies |
3 |
Wed 24 June |
|
Teams' Presentation about Mankiws "Ten Principles of Economics"
|
Video about economic approaches: "60 Second Adventures in Economics" Some Videos "Fight
of the Century" / Fear
the boom and the bust |
4 |
Thu 25 June | Chap. 1 | Globalization | Warm-up
questions ;-) -> Socrative, waiting for the teacher |
5 |
Mon 29 June | Chap. 1 |
Globalization |
-
"Wall Street" (1987) @ Wikipedia; "Greed
is good" speech on Youtube |
6 |
Tue 30 June | Chap. 2 |
National Differences in Political Economy |
+ Teams present "their" country -> poster + presentation (~5 min, see table below) |
7 |
Wed 1 July | Chap. 3 | Political Economy and Economic Development |
See sources below,
esp.: the GapMinder
|
8 |
Thu 2 July | Chap. 3 | Political Economy and Economic Development |
- Hofstede
Center: Strategy - Culture - Change - details about the group presentations (as described in the Syllabus) |
9 |
Mon 6 July | Chap. 4 |
Differences in Culture |
|
10 |
Tue 7 July | Chap. 4 |
Differences in Culture |
+ team-presentations about Hofstede-dimensions for "your" country, see table below - Balance
of Payments (BoP), Current
account balance - comparison table at the World Bank, |
11 |
Wed 8 July | (chap 5) | (We are only briefly going to discuss parts of c.5: Ethics in International Business - slides 1-7, 14, 18, 26-29, 31-32) | Warm-up
questions ;-) - WTO ++ Wiki (history, functions, map, ...) ++ Member Countries |
12 |
Thu 9 July | Test 1 (midterm) |
- Test
1 with 80 MC questions |
Please check the online resources, tests and case studies / maps on the book webpage: online-material from the 9th edition |
13 |
Mon 13 July | Chap. 6 | Presentation Team 1 International Trade Theory |
|
14 |
Tue 14 July | Chap. 6 Chap. 7 |
Presentation Team 2 International Trade Theory The Political Economy of International Trade |
|
15 |
Wed 15 July | Chap. 7 | Presentation Team 3 The Political Economy of International Trade |
|
16 |
Thu 16 July | Chap. 8 | Presentation Team 4
+ Presentation Team 5 Foreign Direct Investment |
|
17 |
Mon 20 July |
Chap. 9 |
Evaluation: IDEA @ uncw.campuslabs.com/courseeval Regional Economic Integration |
Warm-up
questions chapter 6
-> Socrative,
waiting
for the teacher EU:
European Central Bank ECB: |
18 |
Tue 21 July | Chap. 9
Chap. 11 |
Regional Economic Integration (continued) Summary
and YOUR QUESTIONS !!! The International Monetary System Feedback |
Study
Abroad! |
19 |
Wed 22 July | Reading / Study day (no class) |
||
20 |
Thu 23 July | Test 2 (Final) | Final
Test with ~80 MC questions
. topics: Hill chapters 6, 7, 8, 9 and parts of 11 + Case studies of the teams (topics + important content of ppt (=no details, no numbers) |
Please check the online resources, tests and case studies / maps on the book webpage: online-material from the 9th edition |
TEAMwork: (most of the teamwork will be assigned homework but some might take place in class).
Team: Date: |
(All
students) |
A
- Australia |
B
- Brazil |
C
- China |
D
- Denmark |
E
- Egypt |
NAMES
of |
team members: | Deanna Cross Stephen Palmer Rachel Urban |
Alexandria Bradberry Clayton Dawson Gabrielle Husted |
Phillip Dawson Trevor Hendrix Zachary Merritt |
Brandon Best |
Michael Occhineri Matthew Peterman Vincent Troutner |
Mon 22 June | no tasks, Mankiws "Principles" in class: |
1-2 |
3-4 |
5-6 |
7-8 |
9-10 |
Tue 23 June | Mankiw:
"Problems and Applications" |
ONE
example for 17 |
ONE
example for 17 |
ONE
example for 17 |
ONE
example for 17 |
ONE
example for 17 |
Wed 24 June | Mankiw:
"Problems and Applications" |
12,14 |
10,13 |
6,8 |
4,5 |
1,3 |
Tue 30 June | Teams present "their" country -> poster + presentation ~5 min) | Australia |
Brazil |
China |
Denmark |
Egypt |
Tue 7 July | Teams present the difference in cultural dimension
of "their" country (A,B,C,D,E) to the
U.S.using the cultural dimensions and the country comparison to the
U.S. by Hofstede:
Strategy - Culture - Change |
Australia <> U.S. |
Brazil <> U.S. |
China <> U.S. |
Denmark <> U.S. |
Egypt <> U.S. |
Wed 15 July | prepare Excel sheets with the conversion of: All together we'll work on the conversion from mpg to l/100 km (mobile.de) |
• Body Hight | Miles - km | Body weight | • Temperature (Celsius to Fahrenheit) | (other topic – price per unit of gasoline in Germany
vs. US – including the (different) taxes |
Data Sources:
International and Global Economics:
Further links: