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MACROECONOMICS

CODE 55648
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
CREDITS 6 credits during the 1st year of 8697 Business Administration (L-18) GENOVA

6 credits during the 1st year of 8698 Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business (L-18) GENOVA

6 credits during the 1st year of 8699 Economics (L-33) GENOVA

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA (Business Administration)
SEMESTER 2° Semester
SECTIONING This unit is divided into 4 sections:
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites
You can take the exam for this unit if you passed the following exam(s):
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
Prerequisites (for future units)
This unit is a prerequisite for:
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2018/2019)
  • MARKET FORMS, PRICES, AND WAGES 64797
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 60066
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

Course description

The course aims at providing a macroeconomic model for the joint determination of income, employment, interest rate, rate of unemployment and inflation rate prevailing in a certain economy.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course intends to provide some theoretical schemes needed to follow and interpret the dynamics of the main national and international macroeconomic variables.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students are expected to be proficient with macroeconomic modelling.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lectures.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part I: Definition of income, interest rate, unemployment rate and inflation rate.

Part II: The market for goods

Part III: Financial markets

Part IV: The IS-LM model

Part V: The extended IS-LM model

Part VI: The labour market

Part VII: The Phillips curve

Part VIII: The IS-LM-PC model

 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Blanchard O., Amighini A. and F. Giavazzi, Scoprire la macroeconomia, Vol. 1, Mulino Ed. 2016, ISBN 978-88-15-26572-2

Further teaching material provided during the lectures

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO ROBERTO TRONZANO (President)

LESSONS

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lectures.

LESSONS START

Sem. II

February 25 - May 28 2019

Class schedule

MACROECONOMICS B

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written assessment

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written exam with open questions and numerical/analytical exercises

Exam schedule

Date Time Location Type Notes
17/01/2019 15:00 GENOVA Scritto
31/01/2019 15:00 GENOVA Scritto
03/06/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
17/06/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
01/07/2019 10:30 GENOVA Scritto
13/09/2019 15:00 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attendance

Not required.