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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:
    • Business Administration 8697 (coorte 2024/2025)
    • 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

    Microeconomics

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

    TEACHING METHODS

    Standard lectures plus additional classes of  practice tutorials where mathematical exercises will be solved. The material covered during the tutorials may be part of the final exam.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Parte I: Definizione di reddito, tasso di disoccupazione, tasso di inflazione, tasso di interesse e tasso di inflazione.

    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, Il Mulino (ISSN: 978-88-15-28782-3).

    Other material on AULAWEB

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    CLAUDIO ANTONIO GIUSEPPE PIGA (President)

    MARCO GUERRAZZI

    MARCO MAZZOLI

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    Second Semester - February

    Class schedule

    The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    Written exam with open-ended question and mathematical exercises.

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    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.

    Exam schedule

    Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
    17/12/2024 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    16/01/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    07/02/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    17/06/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    01/07/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    16/07/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto
    11/09/2025 11:00 GENOVA Scritto

    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