- Docente: Flavio Delbono
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing students with a solid and Comprehensive background to understand the most important macroeconomic issues as the ones crrently met in the policy debates. At the end of the course, participants will be able to grasp and analyze macroeconomic phenomena (like growth, inflation, unemployment) in the short and in the long-run, the working of monetary and fiscal policy, the pros and cons of European integration and the eurozone.
Course contents
1. Introduction and policy issues
2. National Accounting
3. Growth
4. Aggregate Supply and Demand
5. The Phillips Curve
6. Unemployment
7. Inflation
8. Income and Spending
9. The IS-LM Model
10. The open economy
11. Consumption and Saving
12. The monetary market
13. The Central Bank
14. Basic Finance
15. National debt
16. Recession and depression
17. The eurozone
Readings/Bibliography
The textbook is R. Dornbush, S. Fisher, R. Startz, Macroeconomics,
McGraw-Hill, Twelfth Edition, 2014 (chapters 1-18, 20-21)
Additional material is available in Campus on my page
Teaching methods
Traditional front teaching
Assessment methods
Written exam made of exercises and questions (90 minutes)
Office hours
See the website of Flavio Delbono