INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS

Course outline

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Period: 12-16 September 2011.

Timetable: 14:00 h - 17:00 h* (Definitive timetable to be announced).

Venue: TBA.

Contact hours: 15 hours.

Class size: 10-45.

Teaching language: English (*Portuguese if everybody in the class knows portuguese).

Academic staff

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Miguel St. Aubyn (course leader)

Syllabus

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1. The short run - goods and financial markets, the IS-LM model
2. The medium run - the labour market and the AD-AS model
3. The long run - saving, technological progress and growth
4. The open economy - exchange rate regimes

Main readings

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• Blanchard, O. (2009). Macroeconomics, 5th edn. New York: Prentice-Hall

Additional readings

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• Dornbusch, S. Fischer and R. Startz (2008). Macroeconomics, 10th edn. New York: McGraw-Hill

Links

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• Econometrics
• M.Sc. in Economics
• M.Sc. in Monetary and Financial Economics
• Ph.D. Programme in Economics
• Introduction to Econometrics
• Introduction to Mathematical Economics
• Introduction to Microeconomics
• A Summer Study Guide for New Students of the M.Sc. in Economics and M.Sc. in Monetary and Financial Economics (available on Aquila)