MACROECONOMICS
MACROECONOMIA
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Andrea Ricci |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of this course is to study the how the economy works. GDP, Consumption investment, public debt, unemployment, productivity, exchange rate and interest rate are all topics developed during the course. Then, both economic growth and recession are two main areas of the analysis.
Program
1. The Goods Market
2. Financial Markets
3. Goods and Financial Markets: The IS-LM Model
4. The Goods Market in an open economy
5. The Labor Market
6. The Phillips Curve, the Natural Rate of Unemployment, and Inflation
7. The IS-LM-PC Model
8. Economic growth: stylized facts.
9. Hystory of macroeconomic theory.
Bridging Courses
Microeconomics
Mathematics
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
After completing the course, students must have adequate general knowledge about the fundamental issues of macroeconomics, knowing apply with independent judgment the knowledge acquired and to understand problems related to the macroeconomic contexts. They must also be able to communicate individual ideas and them emerged in working groups.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lecturers and exercises.
- Course books
1. BLANCHARD O. - AMIGHINI A. - GIAVAZZI F. Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea. 2016. Il Mulino. Capitoli: 1-10; 17; 18; 19.
2. David Findlay, Esercizi di Macroeconomia (optional), Il Mulino, 2015 (Optional)
- Assessment
Written and optional oral examination. The written exam consists of three theoretical questions and two exercises. The time available to the student is one hour.
Theoretical questions, and oral exam, are designed to ascertain the level of competence the student has achieved, in the ability to co-ordinate knowledge and skills, to deal with complex situations or new problems in the context of macroeconomic analysis. The exercises are designed to ascertain the student's ability in the practical application of theoretical knowledge, within the macroeconomic models studied during the course.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
1. BLANCHARD O. - AMIGHINI A. - GIAVAZZI F. Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea. 2016. Il Mulino. Capitoli: 1-10; 17; 18; 19.
2. David Findlay, Esercizi di Macroeconomia (optional), Il Mulino, 2015
- Assessment
Written and optional oral examination as attending students.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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