- Docente: Antonello Eugenio Scorcu
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 8038)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give students the basic theoretical tools needed to understand the aggregate working of the economic system and the role played by economic policies. At the end of the course students should be able to use the basic macroeconomic models to analize the interactions among the main aggregate variables and to evaluate critically economic policy choices by governments and central banks.
Course contents
Course contents
- Interaction between goods and financial markets
- The open economy
- The Labour Market
- The IS-LM Model and the Phillips Curve
- The 2007-09 financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis
Readings/Bibliography
O. Blanchard, A.Amighini, F Giavazzi, Macroeconomia, Una prospettiva europea,2016, il Mulino.
Further and more detailed bibliographical indications will be given during lectures.
Teaching methods
Front lecctures.
Assessment methods
Written examinations.
Teaching tools
Weekly tutorials.
Office hours
See the website of Antonello Eugenio Scorcu