Introduction

Pre-requisites

Students enrolled in Macroeconomics are expected to possess the intermediate-level knowledge in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematics, and Statistics and Econometrics, that is taught in a good undergraduate school in Economics. If you are not sure about your previous background, we advise you to read A Summer Study Guide for New Students of the Master's in Economics and Master's in Monetary and Financial Economics, available in the restricted area


Aims and objectives

Macroeconomics is one of the first-semester compulsory courses for the Master's courses in Economics and in  Monetary and Financial Economics at ISEG . The weekly workload is four and a half hours and we anticipate 26 lectures and 13 seminars.

Aims

  • To deepen the knowledge in macroeconomic theory at an advanced level.
  • To provide the methodologies and techniques necessary for analysis and research in the main areas of applied and theoretical Macroeconomics.
  • To provide the appropriate tools for further education at the PhD level.

Objectives

  • To explain and evaluate macroeconomic models.
  • To apply macroeconomic models to practical economic and policy issues.
  • To show a knowledge of the macroeconomic literature in general, and the reading list in particular.

 


Introduction

Semester: 1 st
Credits: 6.0
Contact hours: 26×90 min. lectures, 13×90 min. seminars.
Compulsory for: Master's in Economics and Master's in  Monetary and Financial Economics.
Workload: 160 hours.
Pre-requisites: None.