08795 - Macroeconomics

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Diego Lanzi
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and business (cod. 9202)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic methods and topics of macroeconomic analysis and to ensure their understanding of macroeconomic equilibrium in closed and open economies. At the end of the course the student is able to: -define the main macroeconomic variables; -understand the interaction between the market for goods and for financial assets in closed and open economies; -understand the determinants of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, and of macroeconomic equilibrium in the short and in the long run; -understand the motivation of fiscal and monetary policy and the role of expectations in influencing their impact on the economic system.

Course contents

Chapters 1-15, Mankiw & Taylor's textbook "Macroeconomia

Readings/Bibliography

Mankiw G. & Taylor M., Macroeconomia (sixth italian edition), Zanichelli Ed.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

<18: failed

• 18-20:C

• 21-23:C+

• 24-26:B

• 27-29:B+

• 30:A

• 30 e lode:A+

Office hours

See the website of Diego Lanzi