59691 - MACROECONOMICS

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course the student should have acquired a good understanding of macroeconomic models used to study the determinants and evolution of output, unemployment and prices, in the short and medium run, and of issues related to the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy. In particular, he/she knows: - the role played by nominal and real rigidities in the transmission of monetary shocks and the role of rational expectations; - the determinants of unemployment; - the meaning of sustainability and solvency in the public debt dynamics; - models of the political economy of public debt and default.

Contenuti

The course will cover topics in concerning Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy and Unemployment

Part 1 Monetary Policy

-Inflation, Money Growth and Interest rules
- The terms structure of Interest Rates
- Stabilization Policy and interest rate Rules
- Dynamic Inconsistency of Low Inflation Monetary Policy
- The Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates

Part 2 Fiscal Policy:

- The Government Budget Constraint and Ricardian Equivalence 
- Tax Smoothing and Optimal Tax Policy
- Political-Economy Theories of Budget Deficit
- Sovereign Debt Crises

Part 3 Unemployment

- The Efficiency Wage Model
- Search and Matching Models
- Implicit Contracts,
- Insider-Outsider Model

 

Testi/Bibliografia

David Romer (R), Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw Hill, 2019 (5^th ed) .

Slides and lecture notes

Metodi didattici

Frontal Lectures and Classes  with TA

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Evaluation of homework and inal written exam

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

 Lecture notes and slides on virtuale

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Paolo Luciano Adalberto Manasse