08795 - Macroeconomics

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Valentina Colombo
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Economics (cod. 8848)

Learning outcomes

The main purpose of this course is to provide students with the fundamental principles of macroeconomics to understand the functioning of economic system as a whole.

After completing the course, students will be able to: a) understand the main economic indicators (output, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and exchange rates) and their interrelations; b) understand the causes of the business cycle fluctuation and the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the stabilisation of the economic cycle; c) identify the factors affecting economic growth in the long run; d) understand the role of expectations and assess their impact on the economic system; e) interpret and evaluate media reports on ‘hot macroeconomic issues’.

Course contents

-The main macroeconomic aggregates.

-The good market and the financial markets: the IS-LM model.

-The labour market, the Phillips curve and the IS-LM-PC model

-Openness in goods and financial markets

-The role of expectations

-Government debt

-Economic growth

Readings/Bibliography

-Blanchard, O. Amighini, A. e F. Giavazzi, Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea, Il Mulino, 2016

-Findlay D., Esercizi di macroeconomia, Il Mulino, 2017

Teaching methods

-Lectures

-Classes with presentation of exercises

Assessment methods

The final exam is written

Teaching tools

-Classes with presentation of exercises will be held by the course's tutor

-Syllabus, Lecture slides and hands-out to be found at https://elearning-cds.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Colombo