Macroeconomic Analyis - A study of the factors which determine national income, employment, and price levels, with attention to the effects of monetary and fiscal policy.
This is a course in intermediate macroeconomics with an emphasis on real world applications.
There are two objectives for this course.
1. To develop simple models that can be usefully applied to generate realistic predictions about the behavior of important macroeconomic variables such as output and income, employment
and unemployment, interest rates, the government budget balance, exchange rates and the current account balance, and inflation.
2. To apply these models to understand and interpret current and historical macroeconomic developments—including monetary and fiscal policy choices—and to make predictions about future macroeconomic events, primarily in the industrialized countries.
Textbook:
Robert E. Hall and David H. Papell
Macroeconomics: Economic Growth, Fluctuations, and Policy, 6th edition
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
ISBN 0-393-97515-0
Instructor :
Steven Wood
课程内容
1 Introduction to the Class; Introduction to Macroeconomics