OVERVIEW

The course of Advanced Macroeconomics and Financial Markets aims at offering a wide set analytical tools for understanding the mechanisms underlying the process of economic growth as well as the functioning of the financial and monetary sector of the economy. The course has a strong theoretical commitment but it does not neglect the empirical implications of the theories taken into consideration.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The main objective of the course is to provide students with the most suitable tools to: - understand the mechanisms by which in a given economic system are determined income growth rates, equity prices, investment, inflation and interest rates; - develop a deep knowledge of the main theoretical models with regard to economic growth, financial markets, productive investment of firms, inflation and monetary theory; - link theoretical models with the available empirical evidence.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course of Advanced Macroeconomics and Financial Markets aims at illustrating the ways in which the more consolidated economic theories have framed the various topics collected in the program. At the end of the course, students will be able to handle analytical tools with a certain degree of autonomy and exploit them to explain the determinants of economic development, the trend of the share market, the productive investment of firm, inflation and interest rates. Students will also aware about how the various theories taken into consideration can be compared to available data and will be also proficient in carrying out research independently.

PREREQUISITES

In order to attend the course of Advanced Macroeconomics and Financial Markets in the most profitable way it is necessary to be endowed with an adequate preliminary knowledge of the topics usually covered in the basic courses of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is given through lectures, for a total of 72 hours equal to 9 CFU.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part I. Economic Growth

1. The Solow model
2. The Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model
3. The Diamond model

Part II. Financial Economics

1. The productive investment of companies
2. The Tobin q model
3. Financial market imperfections
4. Mispricing and excess volatility
5. The Diamond-Dybvig model

Part III. Monetary economics

1. The determinants of inflation
2. Cost of inflation and stabilization policies
3. Rules of conduct for monetary policy
4. Seigniorage and inflation

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Romer D. (2019), Advanced Macroeconomics, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill (ISBN: 978-1-260-18521-8).

The teacher will eventually provide further readings during the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO GUERRAZZI (President)

LUCA BELTRAMETTI

ANNA BOTTASSO

GABRIELE CARDULLO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lectures are given during the 2nd Semester of each year.

Class schedule

ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL MARKETS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The final exam is grounded on passing through a written test aimed at assessing the students' degree of understanding regarding the various topics covered during the course. In case of failure, there are no restrictions in repeating the exam. However, students are kindly asked to partecipate only when they think to have a suitable degree of proficiency.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written test is divided into three open questions, one for each part of the program. Questions submitted to students aim at ascertaining the assimilation of the models treated during the course through the request to reproduce in formulas, in graphics or in verbal form the main results arising from the various theoretical frameworks.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attending the course of Advanced Macroeconomics and Financial Markets is not compulsory. However, given the technical contents of the discipline, attending the lectures in a continuous manner is strictly recommended.