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MACROECONOMICS

CODE 55648
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020
CREDITS 6 credits during the 1st year of 8699 Economics (L-33) GENOVA

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

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA (Economics)
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 2019/2020)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2019/2020)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2019/2020)
  • MICROECONOMICS 41126
Prerequisites (for future units)
This unit is a prerequisite for:
  • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2019/2020)
  • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
  • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2019/2020)
  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
  • Economics 8699 (coorte 2019/2020)
  • LABOUR ECONOMICS 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

MAURIZIO CONTI (President)

CONCETTA MENDOLICCHIO

MARCO ROBERTO TRONZANO

LESSONS

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lectures.

LESSONS START

Sem. II

February 17 - May 22, 2020

Class schedule

MACROECONOMICS A

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written assessment

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written exam with open questions and numerical/analytical exercises

Exam schedule

Date Time Location Type Notes
09/01/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
23/01/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
06/02/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
05/06/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
17/06/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
06/07/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto
07/09/2020 10:00 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attendance

Not required.