- Docente: Giovanni Maria Mazzanti
- Credits: 7
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in General Management (cod. 0894)
Learning outcomes
This course presents the main themes and methods of macroeconomic analysis at an introductory level and provides the basic tool box to understand issues related to the macroeconomic equilibrium in closed and open economies and the related policy debate.
Course contents
Course contents:
1. Main macroeconomic aggregates
2. Real and financial markets. The IS-LM model
3. The labor market. The natural rate of unemployment. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply.
4. Expectations
5. Economic Policy
6. The open economy. The exchange rate. The IS-LM model in open economy. Exchange rate regimes.
7. High public debt and the European Economic and Monetary Union.
Readings/Bibliography
Textbook: Blanchard, O. Macroeconomia (5th italian ed.), Il Mulino, 2009
Exercise book: Resmini L. Macroeconomia: esercizi (3rd italian ed), Egea, 2006
Teaching methods
Lectures. Classes with presentation of exercises
Assessment methods
Written exam
For those who attend classes the exam is articulated in two parts, a midterm to be held after the first half of the course, and a final to be held at the end of the course.
Teaching tools
Teachnig material (problem sets and solutions) available on: http://www2.dse.unibo.it/gmazzanti/index.htm
Links to further information
http://www2.dse.unibo.it/gmazzanti/index.htm
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Maria Mazzanti