FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Microeconomics and macroeconomics examination topics
(Bachelor studies)
1. Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost in economics.
2. Economic systems: free market economy, market economy, regulated economy and
planned economy.
3. Private and public sectors in European economy.
4. Circulation in the market for goods and the market for inputs.
5. Demand, supply and equilibrium in the market for goods and the market for inputs.
6. The elasticity of demand and supply of goods and inputs.
7. The principle of maximum utility and the theory of consumer choice.
8. The income and substitution effects of a price change.
9. The compensating and equivalent variations of income.
10. The profit-maximizing activities of an enterprise.
11. The short-term costs of an enterprise.
12. Supply decisions: revenues, costs and profit maximization in a perfectly competitive
enterprise.
13. The short-term and long-term break-even points of an enterprise.
14. Long-term costs: the positive and negative economies of scale of an enterprise.
15. The long-run industry supply curve.
16. The equilibrium of an enterprise in the labour market and in the market for goods.
17. The capital market: the demand function and investment decisions of an enterprise.
18. The nature of monopoly and the causes of monopolization.
19. Imperfect competition: monopoly and oligopoly competition.
20. Fiscal policy and budget constraints (of the public sector, of the private sector and of
households).
21. Static and dynamic interpretations of unemployment.
22. Economic functions of money. Money market equilibrium.
23. Okun’s law and the Philips curve.
24. Fiscal and monetary policies in the conditions of the contemporary financial market.
25. Macroeconomic stabilization instruments.
FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
SPECIALIZATION: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
(Bachelor studies)
1. The motives behind the international expansion of enterprises.
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The forms of the international expansion of enterprises.
The essence and scope of the concept of importers’ portfolio management.
The standardization vs. customization of a company’s marketing activities.
The process of introducing a product to a foreign market.
The essence and structure of a balance of payments.
International monetary systems.
Contemporary financial crises.
The division of risk involved in the transport of goods in different INCOTERMS
formulas.
10. The advantages and disadvantages of letters of credit.
11. The structure and competences of the main Community institutions.
12. Stages of the economic integration in Europe: the Balassa model.
13. The concept and interpretation of terms of trade.
14. The concept and interpretation of the functioning of the export multiplier.
15. The concept, essence and interpretation of Leontief’s paradox.
16. Name the international organizations that Poland is a member of and describe the
activities of a selected organization in Poland.
17. Which international organizations act towards the protection of human rights?
Describe them briefly.
18. The application of the theory of psychological types in project management.
19. The tools and techniques used in project management.
20. Name the main barriers in international negotiations and describe one of them.
21. How to handle a negotiation stalemate. List different options and describe one of
them.
22. The equivalence of categorization in international marketing research.
23. Testing the trustworthiness of a foreign contracting party.
24. Name the main channels for the international diffusion of technological knowledge.
25. What competitiveness indices are characteristic of technologically advanced
countries?