Macroeconomics (261094)

Learning Outcomes

Main Goal: Teach the students in order to enable them to assimilate solid theoretical knowledge for a correct analysis of national and international markets in a macroeconomic context.

Others:

• Understand the fundamental concepts and mechanisms of macroeconomics;
• Discuss monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy;
• The government economic policy as a stimulus to the competitiveness and economic growth;

Study Program

1. What is Macroeconomics?
2. The economic circuit
3. The three optics of the value of national production
4. Consumption, Savings and Investment;
5. The simple Keynesian model
6. The functions of money
7. The evolution of money throughout the centuries
8. Money and the price level
9. Introduction to macroeconomic fluctuations
10. Aggregate demand and inflation
11. The importance of macroeconomic policies
12. Elementary notions of international economics
13. Neoclassic theory of international trade
14. New theories of international trade
15. Balance of Payments: analysis and decomposition;
16. Exchange rate regimes and exchange rates
17. Economic integration: forms and effects
18. Economic development: contemporary analysis
19. Elementary notions of economic development
20. Development indicators
21. Underdevelopment characteristics
22. Rostow’s theory of development stages

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