The formative objective for the student consists of achieving the following learning outcomes.

Knowledge and understanding.
The course aims at providing the necessary tools for an in-depth understanding of the economic-business dynamics related to global markets in light of the increased information available.

Applying knowledge and understanding.
The course aims to transfer to the student the ability: i) to critically interpret international economic dynamics; ii) to know how to both theoretically and empirically describe the economic phenomena linked to the globalization process; iii) be able to understand and carry out comparative studies on the competitiveness of both single firms and aggregated economic systems by exploiting the increased information made available by the digitization processes.