20357 - MACROECONOMICS - PREPARATORY COURSE
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 1
Lezioni della classe erogate in presenza
The aim of this preparatory course is to provide the basic analytical tools for the analysis of the current macroeconomic scenarios. After a review of the economic fundamentals (GDP, unemployment, inflation, debt and deficits), the lectures deal with the concept of short-run equilibrium and the basics of the open economy
- Introduction to macroeconomics.
- Measuring the macroeconomy.
- An overview of long-run economic growth.
- The labor market, wages, and unemployment.
- Inflation.
- An introduction to the short-run.
- The IS curve.
- Consumption.
- Investment.
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- Face-to-face lectures
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Continuous assessment | Partial exams | General exam | |
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C.I. JONES, Macroeconomics, W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2014, 3rd edition, (chapters 1-3, 7-9, 11, 16-17).