INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

National economies and global economy. World economy's potential. Overview of the national economies and regional clusters. International economic relations' system. Models, principles and factors of the contemporary international economic relations' development. General overview of the basic forms of the international economic relations. International trade. International flow of capital. International migration of human resources. World currency system and international payments.

Major forms of international economic integration. European integration processes. North American economic integration. Peculiarities of integration in Latin America, Asia and Africa. International business, its kinds and forms. Joint venture. Transnational companies' activity. Ukraine in the international economic relations. Peculiarities of the Ukrainian economic relations with certain countries and country groups. Ukraine's integration into the system of contemporary global economic relations.

FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

Fundamentals of the relations' regulation between the subjects of foreign economic activity. International and national systems of foreign economic activity regulation; their legal, economic and institutional components. Peculiarities of the foreign economic activity regulation in the fields of trade, services, licenses sale and labour market. Regulation of business activity of joint ventures, industrial-financial groups and transnational corporations. Crediting, insurance and various forms of state support for foreign economic activity. Currency, tax and noneconomic (sanitary, ecologic etc.) forms of regulation. Fundamentals of customs procedures and arbitrage in the field of foreign economic activity. Types of foreign economic policy and corresponding types of their regulation - experience of the developed countries, integrated unions, GATT-WTO and other international organizations. Mechanism of adaptation Ukrainian exporters and importers to the forms and methods of international regulation of foreign economic activity.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Status and functional tasks of various types of international economic organizations. Necessity for formation of the international organizations' network as an instrument of the international relations' system regulation in the global economy. Hierarchic structure of such organizations according to their types and kinds - international, regional, interstate (Paris and London clubs etc.). General functional and sectorial organizations. International organizations of the economic orientation - FAO, UNIDO etc. Regional organizations of the economic orientation - EEC, ECLA etc. GATT and WTO, their influence upon international trade. Relations between international organizations and integration clusters. Ukraine's membership in the key international organizations prior to 1991. Role of the relations' development between independent Ukraine and international organizations; Ukraine's representation in the global geopolitical and geoeconomic space.

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

Peculiarities of the transnational corporations' functioning in the economic relations' system. Evolution of international monopolies and establishment of transnational corporations as an objective process of the economic activity internationalization. Functions and peculiarities of the transnational corporations' activities in the contemporary world economy, their ratio in it. Transnational corporations' influence upon the structure and the dynamics of the national economy, upon the economies of the developed, post-socialistic and other countries, and upon the integration clusters. Peculiarities of the transnational corporations' activity regulation on the UN level, on the level of other international organizations, on the level of certain countries and their clusters. Peculiarities of the organizational and managerial arrangement for functioning of various types of transnational corporations. Current state and prospects of relations between transnational corporations and Ukrainian national economy.

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

Forms and methods of export-import possibilities' evaluation by subjects of foreign economic activity for certain national and regional distribution markets, for separate kinds of commodities and for the related services' provision. Marketing research structure in the field of export & import. Peculiarities of the consumer panel. Buyers' typology for separate countries, regions. Segmentation of the foreign market. Foreign competitors' policy. Components and peculiarities of the commodity strategy, price strategy, advertising strategy, distribution and service strategies of the enterprises on the external market. Short- and long-term strategies of securing positions on the traditional markets of distribution and entering new ones. Information support sources for international marketing. Peculiarities of Ukrainian and foreign marketing divisions' functioning.

FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT

Objective grounds and essence of the foreign economic activity management. General overview of the foreign economic activity management. Peculiarities of the foreign economic activity management. International strategies and organizational structures of a firm. Managing contract activity. Essence and structure of the foreign economic agreement. International investment activity management.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS

General principles of trade. Basic scheme of conducting negotiations. Methods of influence upon the counterparty. Methods of the counterparty's diagnostics. Establishing optimal conditions for negotiations. Signing a contract and its performance. Working with public authorities and governmental bodies. National peculiarities of your partner's business behaviour.

INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING

Advertising as an important element of the contemporary marketing communications. Socio-psychological grounds of advertising. Communication vehicles. Public relations. Sponsorship and patronship. Stimulation of distribution. Advertising budget. Development and realization of an advertising campaign. Advertising agencies and their areas.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Essence of international trade, its role and its place in the international economic relations. Objective conditions for the international trade establishment and its further development. Forms and methods of international trade. Mechanisms of the international trade regulation. Tariff and non-tariff regulation of the export-import operations. Regulatory and institutional support of the international trade relations' development. Pricing in the international trade. Price as an objective instrument for the international trade operations' conducting. Basic conditions of deliveries in the international trade (INCOTERMS). Establishment and peculiarities of the current development of the global market of goods and services. Ukraine on the world market of goods and services.

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Essence of international tourism and its place in the global market of services. Tourism industry in the structure of the tourist market. Peculiarities of the international trade of the tourist services. Organization and regulation of international tourism. Size, structure and dynamics of the international tourism. Methodological grounds and instruments' set for the market research in the field of the tourist services. Marketing in the international tourism. Market potential estimation for the international tourism development in Ukraine. Prerequisites and mechanisms for the international tourism priorities' development in Ukraine.

WORLD COMMODITY MARKET ENVIRONMENT

Environmental research in the system of the external markets' analysis. Basic environment-creating factors in the development of world market. Regional and sectoral aspects of the foreign markets' environment. Market environment in the countries of CIS, EU and other regions of the world. Peculiarities of the raw materials' market environment. Market environment of the processing industry and of the agroindustrial complex. Environment of the global market of services. Peculiarities of the external economic environment of the export-import activity of Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Objective grounds and essence of international management. International management environment and its characteristics. Peculiarities of international management. Scientific schools and international management experience in various countries. Organization of marketing research on the external market. International strategies, their formation and realization. International organizational structures and corporate culture. Managing international controlling activity. The structure of the foreign economic agreement. Managing international investment activity. Peculiarities and problems of the joint ventures' management. Problems of the Ukrainian enterprises' engagement into the current activities in the field of international management.

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Essence of the international strategic management in the contemporary system of international business. Strategic analysis of the international business. Basic elements and general characteristics of the international strategies. Formation and development of the firm's competitive advantages. Corporate strategy, its essence and stages of formation. International strategies' implementation.

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Essence of the notions "management" and "international marketing". Management model with the international marketing technologies applied. Organizational structure of the international marketing management. Major strategies of the international marketing management. Analysis and prognostics. Demand formation and stimulation of distribution. Risk management in the international marketing.

CUSTOMS LAW

Legal framework of the customs law in Ukraine. Principles and organizational basis for the customs bodies. Aims, forms and procedures of the customs control. Legal order of calculation and payment of the value-added tax and excise duty for the imported and exported commodities and services. Amenability of the customs bodies, customs officers, legal entities and private individuals for the customs regulations' violation. Cooperation of the customs bodies with state, law-enforcement and non-profit organizations in the field of prevention of the Ukrainian customs laws' violation.