- Docente: Martin Gonzalez Eiras
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Politics and Social Sciences (cod. 5819)
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from Sep 20, 2023 to Dec 07, 2023
Learning outcomes
The goal is to develop a relatively advanced basis for an understanding of how the national and global economies work at the aggregate level, and how production, employment, prices and interest rates are determined. We will develop the theoretical foundations to analyze the business cycle (why economic activity fluctuates), long run economic growth (why some countries are rich and other poor, why some countries are growing and other stagnating), financial crisis and recessions as well as how fiscal, monetary, and economic policy in general affect economic activity. Great emphasis will be devoted to learn how financial markets work and to study elements of international economics.
Course contents
Stylized facts
Solow growth model and endogenous growth
Households’ consumption and saving decisions
Labor and leisure
Investment
General equilibrium
Asset prices
Money and inflation
Business cycle facts and models
Fiscal and monetary policy
Financial frictions and crises
Readings/Bibliography
"A Course in Modern Macroeconomics", 2020, by Pablo Kurlat, Independtly published, is the main textbook
Additional material:
"Debt, deleveraging, and the liquidity trap: A Fisher-Minsky-Koo approach", 2012, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 1469–1513
Teaching methods
Lectures and recitations, complemented by supporting material.
Attendance of both lectures and recitations is strongly recommended.
Knowledge of Microeconomics is strongly recommended to take this course.
Assessment methods
Assessment will take place through written exams (no oral exams). During the semester, students will have the opportunity to take two partial exams (the final grade is the average of the two partials). Full exams can cover material from any topic. Students can reject an exam pass grade only once.
The maximum possible score in the class is 30 cum laude, in case all answers are correct, complete and formally rigorous.
The grade distribution is as follows:
<18 failed
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 e lode excellent
In case online exams will be envisaged by the University of Bologna for all students, the structure of the written exam is the same. The exam will be run through Teams or Zoom and Exams Online (EOL). Detailed instructions on how to manage and hand in the online exam are available on the course page on the VIRTUALE platform.
Teaching tools
Lectures and recitations.
Slides, exercises, and other material will be made available online on virtuale.
Both the book and the additional material, to be posted online, are compulsory for the preparation of the exam.
Office hours
See the website of Martin Gonzalez Eiras