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CODE 55648
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
SECTIONING Questo insegnamento è diviso nelle seguenti frazioni:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • PREREQUISITES
    Propedeuticità in ingresso
    Per sostenere l'esame di questo insegnamento è necessario aver sostenuto i seguenti esami:
    Propedeuticità in uscita
    Questo insegnamento è propedeutico per gli insegnamenti:
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    • ECONOMIC POLICY 64452
    • Maritime, Logistics and Transport Economics and Business 8698 (coorte 2024/2025)
    • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS 63739
    • Economics 8699 (coorte 2024/2025)
    • ECONOMIC POLICY 60066
    • Economics 8699 (coorte 2024/2025)
    • MARKET FORMS, PRICES, AND WAGES 64797
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    The course aims at introducing the determinants of the main economic aggregates such as output (GDP), unemployment, inflation and interest rates.

    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

    At the end of the lectures, students are assumed to be proficient with macroeconomic modelling and in evaluating fiscal and monetary policies.

    PREREQUISITES

    Students are supposed to be familiar with the resolution of first-order equations.

    TEACHING METHODS

    The course is given through frontal lectures.

    Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities  and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department's disability liaison.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    The syllabus of the course is the following:

    I. The main topics of Macroeconomics: definition of output, unemployment and inflation rate
    II. The market for goods
    II. Financial markets
    IV. The IS-LM model
    V. The extended IS-LM model
    VI. The labour market
    VII. The Phillips curve, the natual rate of unemployement and the inflation rate
    VIII. The IS-LM-PC model

    Further indications will be eventually provided during the lectures

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    The textbook is the following:
    Blanchard, O., Amighini A., Giavazzi, F. (2020), Macroeconomia: una prospettiva europea (ISBN:978-88-15-28782-3 ) , edizioni Il Mulino.

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    CONCETTA MENDOLICCHIO (President)

    MARCO GUERRAZZI

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    Lectures will be given in the second semester.
     

    Class schedule

    The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam is given by a written assessment with open questions and numerical/analytical exercises.

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    The answers to the open questions and the solutions of the numerical/analytical exercises will be evaluated according to their correctness by considering also a proper use of the technical language typical of the subject.

    Exam schedule

    Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
    10/01/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    23/01/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    04/02/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    27/05/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    10/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    25/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto
    12/09/2025 09:00 GENOVA Scritto

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Any changes will be announced during the lectures and on Aulaweb.

    In case of special requirements, students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities are requested to contact - at the beginning of the semester - the "Student Disability Services" and the teacher.

    Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals

    Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals
    No poverty
    No poverty
    Quality education
    Quality education
    Decent work and economic growth
    Decent work and economic growth
    Responbile consumption and production
    Responbile consumption and production