Economia

Cover of the School of Economics' review on Economics & International Relations. opposite page: Gilles Lipovetsky, French sociologist and theorist of the new individualism, during lecture at FAAP.

Economics

1st SEMESTER


Discipline Name Number of hours
3EC130 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION I 36
3EC131 CREATIVITY I 36
3EC132 LAW I 36
3EC133 ECONOMICS I 36
3EC134 INSTRUMENTAL INFORMATICS I 36
3EC135 MATHEMATICS I 36
3EC136 SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY 36
3EC137 POLITICS I 36
3EC138 PORTUGUESE - INSTRUMENTAL WRITING I 36
3EC139 BRAZILIAN REALITY I 36

2nd SEMESTER

Discipline Name Number of hours
3EC230 ADMINISTRATION II 36
3EC231 CREATIVITY II 36
3EC232 LAW II 36
3EC233 ECONOMICS II  36
3EC234 INSTRUMENTAL INFORMATICS II 36
3EC235 MATHEMATICS II 36
3EC236 POLITICS II 36
3EC237 PORTUGUESE - INSTRUMENTAL WRITING II 36
3EC238 BRAZILIAN REALITY II 36
3EC239 RESEARCH TECHNIQUES 36

3rd SEMESTER

4th SEMESTER

5th SEMESTER

6th SEMESTER

7th SEMESTER

Discipline Name Number of hours
3EC730 AGRIBUSINESS 36
3EC733 COMPETITIVE STRATEGY 36
3EC731 BRAZILIAN ECONOMY  I 36
3EC732 ECONOMETRICS I 36
3EC734 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE I 36
3EC735 CAPSTONE PROJECT II 144
3EC736 MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 36
3EC737 FINANCE THEORY II 36

8th SEMESTER

Economics

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION I
Catalogue Code: 3EC130
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
Background and development of administrative thinking: theories and approaches. The administrative functions: planning, organization, direction and control. The role of trustee and management skills. The organization as a system. The decision-making process. Administration of human resources. Main management tools: Communication, Motivation and Leadership. Organizational structures and sources of power. Notions of Finance, Financial and organizational control systems.

CREATIVITY I
Catalogue Code: 3EC131
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
Basic concepts of creativity and innovation. Structure and functioning of the brain. Integrated use of the potential brain. Techniques for the development of creative potential. Creative solution of problems.

LAW I
Catalogue Code: 3EC132
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course


SUMMARY
The program is directed to issues of Public Law, highlighting the legislative process, the Rights and Fundamental Guarantees, the Economical Order, Financial and Tax, in accordance with the Federal Constitution of Brazil.

ECONOMICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC133
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course
SUMMARY
Conceptualization of Economic Science. Examination of problems inherent in the definition and study of economics and the way in which societies are organized to address its fundamental economic issues. Definition of the study of Microeconomic Theory, by examining the functioning of the market, studying the theory of production, analysis of the theory of costs and manner in which production and prices are determined in each marketing structure.

INSTRUMENTAL INFORMATICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC134
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
Computational tools in academic and professional activities. Word processors, spreadsheets and programs for development of presentations.

MATHEMATICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC135
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
Functions of first and second grade. Limit of a function and derived using the average rate of change.

SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY
Catalogue Code: 3EC136
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
The mission of the university. The origin of knowledge: philosophy and science. The theories and types of knowledge. Scientific knowledge and philosophy of science. Scientific method. The methodology of social sciences. Methodology applied to economics and international relations.

POLITICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC137
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course


SUMMARY
The State, its genesis and institutions. Evolution of the State. Power, State, Government, legitimacy, authority, nation, sovereignty and democracy.

PORTUGUESE - INSTRUMENTAL WRITING I
Catalogue Code: 3EC138
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
The Process of verbal communication: techniques of reading, interpretation of texts, technical writing. Patterns of cultural norms of the Portuguese language.

BRAZILIAN REALITY I
Catalogue Code: 3EC139
Total Course Hours: 36
First Semester Course

SUMMARY
Retrospective analysis in Brazilian political and economic fields, so the student can develop their own analytical capacity - conjuncture analysis.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION II
Catalogue Code: 3EC230
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
The study of administrative activities and the role of marketing in business. Definition of Marketing. Marketing System. Marketing activities. Environmental analysis of the company: economic, political and legal, social, natural, technological and competitive. Segmentation of the market. Market positioning. Management of products. Distribution channels. Price formation. Propaganda. Personal sales. Advertising and sales promotion.

CREATIVITY II
Catalogue Code: 3EC231
Total Course Hours: 36
Course: ECONOMICS
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
The Creative Product: characteristics and evaluation criteria. Creativity and Innovation. Environment and Climate that encourages creative behavior. Questioning of paradigms and practical applications of Creativity. Creativity and entrepreneurship.

LAW II
Catalogue Code: 3EC232
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
According to the Brazilian Constitution, the notions of Commercial Law, act of incorporation of trading companies, types of companies by persons, responsibility of company shares Limited, dissolution of companies, corporations, bankruptcy and composition. Notions of Civil Law, Consumer Law and Environmental Law in accordance with the Federal Constitution of Brazil.

ECONOMICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC233
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
The basics of macroeconomics, issues regarding national accounting and problems of existing measures. The theory that determines the income and the question tax policy. Currency and monetary policy and discuss the problems of inflation and unemployment. Issues regarding international relations and economic development.

INSTRUMENTAL INFORMATICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC234
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
Computational tools in academic and professional activities. Spreadsheets. Introduction to databases.

MATHEMATICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC235
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
Numeric sets. Function of a variable. Study of a function by graphical representation. Limit and continuity. Accruals and average rate of change. Derivatives of functions of one variable. Successive derivatives. Implementation of the first order derivative of the study of functions with a variable. Indefinite integral. Fully defined. Application area as the full set. Function with two variables. Partial derivatives. Review of basic concepts. Limits and derivatives. Maximum and minimum integrated.

POLÍTICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC236
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
Definition of the object and the characteristics of international politics. Actors, concept of the international system and anarchy, order of the international system, the power in interstate relations, war and cooperation, the structures that shape the system, the international legitimacy, the current process of globalization.

PORTUGUESE - INSTRUMENTAL WRITING II
Catalogue Code: 3EC237
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
Process of verbal communication: techniques of reading, interpretation of texts and technical writing. Patterns of cultural norms of the Portuguese language.

BRAZILIAN REALITY II
Catalogue Code: 3EC238
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
The reality in the Brazilian social and cultural fields, so that the students can develop their own analytical capacity - conjuncture analysis.

TECHNIQUES OF RESEARCH
Catalogue Code: 3EC239
Total Course Hours: 36
Second Semester Course

SUMMARY
Rules for developing a research project. Aspects of developing a scientific research. Theoretical and applied research. Literature: what, why and how to search. The construction of hypotheses. The selection of material. The study of texts. Data collection. Analysis and interpretation.

BASIC ACCOUNTING
Catalogue Code: 3EC330
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
The Accounting. Types of companies. The Patrimony. Financial statements.
Accounting by successive balance sheets and by T-accounts - Double-entry bookkeeping system. Accounting Facts. Balance sheet. Accounts. Account plan. Patrimonial structure. Demonstration of result of the financial year. The need and importance of the structure. Analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Types of analysis . Analysis reports.

EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC331
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Concepts of political theory and the issues of organization of power. The Classical Political Philosophy and International Relations: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Montesquieu, The Federalists, Alexis de Tocqueville and Stuart Mill.

STATISTICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC332
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Data analysis. Probability. Random Variables. Discrete and continuous distributions.

ETHICS I
Catalogue Code
: 3EC333
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Philosophical perspective of ethics. Classical Greece: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ethics, stoic and Epicurean. Ethics in Kant. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill. Rousseau. Ethical evaluation of an action.

BASES AND POLICIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Catalogue Code
: 3EC334
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Historical and theoretical principals of trade and the basic concepts for the development of trade activity.

GENERAL ECONOMIC HISTORY I
Catalogue Code: 3EC335
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Characteristics and purposes of the General History and Economic History, relating the evolution of social-political and economical events.

MACROECONOMICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC336
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
The measurement of macroeconomic variables (National Accounts), and the macroeconomic models - Classic and Keynesian.zz

MATHEMATICS III
Catalogue Code: 3EC337
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Applications of quantitative methods for solving economic problems.

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC338
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Simple and compound interest Rates. Discount rates. Cash flows.

MICROECONOMICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC339
Total Course Hours: 36
Third Semester Course

SUMMARY
Principals of microeconomic theory, with emphasis on consumer behavior and enterprise. Prices formation and market equilibrium.

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Catalogue Code: 3EC430
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Balance Sheets and other financial statements. The performance of companies through management reports.

EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC431
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
The emergence of sociology as a science. Classical sociological theory: Positivism, Materialism and Idealism. The sociology in the post-industrial society. The globalization in terms of sociology - and labor organizations. The post-modernity and the challenges of society in the Global Information Age.

STATISTICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC432
Total Course Hours: 36
 Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Continuous distributions. Sample distributions. Sampling. Confidence interval. Testing of Hypothesis.

ETHICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC433
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY 
Historical evolution of the studies of ethics. Development of ethical environment in organizations. Ethics in different areas of enterprises. Ethics in theoretical studies of International relations.

GENERAL ECONOMIC HISTORY II
Catalogue Code: 3EC434
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Desintegration of feudalism. Transition from feudalism to capitalism. The formation of mercantilism. Transition from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism. Consequences of the Industrial Revolution. The second technological revolution and the transition from capitalism to the competitive monopolistic capitalism. Recent developments of capitalism. Globalization and the prospects of capitalism.

MACROECONOMICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC436
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Macroeconomic modeling to understanding the effects of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies under different hypothesis.

FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC438
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Alternative to investments and search for solutions to financial problems and the index numbers.

MATHEMATICS IV
Catalogue Code: 3EC437
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Applications of quantitative methods for solving economic problems.

MICROECONOMICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC439
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Production and cost relations of the company. Environment in which the company operates, constraints of consumers and the goods and services offered by the firm.

ECONOMICS TRADE PRACTICES
Catalogue Code: 3EC435
Total Course Hours: 36
Fourth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Trade practices to access markets. Price formation and administrative procedures of trade and logistics. Financial approach.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC531
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Theoretical principals of international economy, contextualizing the evolution of the economic thought in the treatment of international economic relations, the use of general and specific models of working with the production factors, the advantages and mobility of production factors.

MONETARY ECONOMICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC532
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Monetary concepts. Financial assets and credit. The monetary and financial systems. Monetary theory.

ECONOMIC STATISTICS I
Catalogue Code: 3EC533
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Index number. Simple correlation. Simple linear regression. Linear models. Simple regression applied to economics. Multiple Linear regression.

PUBLIC SECTOR ECONOMICS
Catalogue Code: 3EC530
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Forms of state intervention in the economy. Fiscal policy. Tax policy. Studying the Brazilian fiscal policy, as the government revenue, with an emphasis on tax policy. The need for reform towards public expenditure, with emphasis on the budget constraint and public debt, both internal and external.

ECONOMIC FORMATION - LATIN AMERICA
Catalogue Code: 3EC535
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
The economic history of Latin America since the Spanish conquest to the establishment of the imports substitution industry and the diffusion of the popular masses in Latin American political process.

BUSINESS FINANCE
Catalogue Code: 3EC534
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Organization and function of the financial sector. Budget evaluation. Financial planning and control.

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT I
Catalogue Code: 3EC536
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Evolution of the economic ideas: Mercantilists. Physiocrats. Classicals: Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Say, Stuart Mill. Utopian socialism and others socialists derivations.

MACROECONOMICS III
Catalogue Code: 3EC537
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Macroeconomic issues using as reference the various lines of research that came after the revolution started by Keynes. The New Keynesian school and the new classics. Heterodox response: the regulationists and post-Keynesian school.

BRAZILIAN FINANCIAL MARKETS
Catalogue Code: 3EC538
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Operation of financial institutions in Brazil. Operation of the Brazilian financial market, in each of its segments. Financial products in Brazil.

MICROECONOMICS III
Catalogue Code: 3EC539
Total Course Hours: 36
Fifth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Maximization of profit and competitive offer. Market structures: monopoly, monopsony. Pricing. General equilibrium and economic efficiency.

DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF PROJECTS
Catalog Code: 3EC632
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Economic Feasibility Study (installation, expansion, modernization, diversification or relocation of a project) in the industrial sector. Linear programming applied to investment analysis.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS II
Catalogue Code: 3EC630
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Theoretical principals of the aspects related to trade policy, the options of free trade and protectionism and strategic vision of trade policy as a key instrument of public policy.

MONETARY ECONOMICS II
Catalog Code: 3EC631
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Theory and monetary policies under different models and systems: Classical, Keynesian, Neo-quantitative, New Classical and New Keynesian.

ECONOMIC STATISTICS II
Catalog Code: 3EC633
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Regression model - violation of assumptions. Simultaneous equations, least squares in two stages, linear estimation and maximum likelihood.

ECONOMIC FORMATION - BRAZIL
Catalog Code: 3EC635
Total Course Hours: 54
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY 
Brazilian economic history since the beginning of colonization until the collapse of the coffee economy in the 1930’s and the measures taken by Brazil to overcome the global depression.

INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES FINANCE
Catalog Code: 3EC634
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Organization and functions within both corporate finance and corporate insertion in the international market.

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT II
Catalog Code: 3EC636
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Evolution of economic ideas. Historical overview and interaction between the conceptual apparatus and abstract forms of economic organization.

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
CAPSTONE PROJECT I
Catalog Code: 3EC637
Total Course Hours: 72
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Development of a research topic in Economics, methodologically structured in order to prepare the final course thesis.

MACROECONOMICS SPECIAL TOPICS
Catalog Code: 3EC639
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Macroeconomic theory in an economy which is open to international trade and to international movement of capital.

MICROECONOMICS  SPECIAL TOPICS
Catalog Code: 3EC640
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Game theory and competitive strategy. Markets with asymmetric information. Externalities and public goods.

FINANCE  THEORY I
Catalog Code: 3EC638
Total Course Hours: 36
Sixth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Fixed income market: Brazil, United States of America and the world. Market and stock analysis.

AGRIBUSINESS
Catalog Code: 3EC730
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
The Brazilian agribusiness, aspects of production inputs for agriculture, agricultural production and the flow of such production to consumer markets, both internal and external, including its industrial processing.

COMPETITIVE  STRATEGY
Catalog Code: 3EC733
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Concept of competitiveness. Determinants of competitiveness. Market Structures. Regulation and antitrust. Industrial Policy. Competitive strategy. Corporate Governance.

BRAZILIAN ECONOMY I
Catalog Code: 3EC731
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Industrialization and substitution of imports after the 1930s. The accelerated growth of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The crisis of the 1980s.

ECONOMETRICS I
Catalog Code: 3EC732
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Problems associated with analysis of time series: stationariness. Cointegration and unit roots. Spurious regression and vector autoregression (VAR. Analysis techniques of univariate models of time series: classic approach, Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) approach and auto-regressive and conditioned heterocedasticity models (ARCH and GARCH).

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE I
Catalog Code: 3EC734
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Historical evolution of economic theory of the international financial system from the gold standard on. Creation and collapse of the Bretton-Woods international financial system and in the present.

CAPSTONE PROJECT II
Catalog Code: 3EC735
Total Course Hours: 144
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Tutorial to develop the final course thesis.

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Catalog Code: 3EC736
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
National and international organizations assessed under the strategic context in both fields of human relations and organizational development in accordance to the concepts of: skills, intellectual capital, organizational change, competitiveness and market variation and patterns of work in competitive scenarios.

FINANCE  THEORY II
Catalog Code: 3EC737
Total Course Hours: 36
Seventh Semester Course

SUMMARY
Fixed income market: Brazil, United States of America and the world. Market and stock analysis.

SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Catalog Code: 3EC830
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Concepts and theoretical approaches to socio-economic development. Major development processes of the twentieth century. Research in a historical interpretation of the future development of the Latin-American capitalist periphery, particularly in Brazil, in the context of globalization of financial capital.

BRAZILIAN ECONOMY II
Catalog Code: 3EC831
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
The Brazilian economy after the trade liberalization of 1990. The issue of competitiveness of the Brazilian economy toward globalization, taking into account its various aspects and analyzing the situation of the country and its companies face the competitive challenge and the prospect of its internationalization.

ECONOMETRICS II Catalog Code: 3EC832
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Panel Data, LOGIT and PROBIT, Monte Carlo Simulation, Generalized Method of Moments, Multivariate analysis: Data grouping (clustering), Correspondence Analysis, Factor Analysis (Principal Components), discriminant analysis.

TRANSNATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESMENT
Catalog Code: 3EC833
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Determinants for transnational companies to invest in some countries after the acceleration of globalization of the world economy. The new parameters of internationalization of the production in world scale and impact on investment decisions that are no longer guided by the domestic consumer market.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE II
Catalog Code: 3EC834
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
The global capital market. Performance and problems of economic policy. The international financial market and developing countries.

CAPSTONE PROJECT III
Catalog Code: 3EC835
Total Course Hours: 144
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Tutorial to develop the final course thesis.

ECONOMIC POLICY
Catalog Code: 3EC836
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Objectives and instruments of economic policy. Interdependencies of the  policies. Analysis of Monetary Policy. Analysis of the External Sector Policy. Analysis of Fiscal Policy. Social Polices. Sustained Growth and Microeconomic Reforms.

FINANCE  THEORY III
Catalog Code: 3EC837
Total Course Hours: 36
Eighth Semester Course

SUMMARY
Options market, futures and other derivatives. Portfolio management.

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