08795 - Macroeconomics (O-Z)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)

Course contents

1 Measuring a nation’s well-being
2 Measuring the cost of living
3 Production and growth
4 Unemployment
5 Saving, investment and the financial system
7 The monetary system
8 Money growth and inflation
9 Open-economy macroeconomics: Basic concepts
10 A macroeconomic theory of the open economy
11 Business cycles
12 Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis
13 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
14 The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand
15 The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment
16 Supply-side policies

Readings/Bibliography

Mankiw G., Taylor M. "Macroeconomics", Cangage

Published: © 2017

ISBN: 9781473725362

Teaching methods

Traditional classes and working groups.

Assessment methods

Written Exam

Office hours

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