Currículo

Macroeconomics I MAC1-E

Contextos

ECTS

6.0 (para cálculo da média)

Objectivos

The aim of this course is to provide the students with an introductory contact with concepts, ideas, models and issues within the scope of macroeconomics, i.e., related to the behavior of the economy as a whole and the flows that constitute it. The course addresses both short-term issues (e.g., economic cycles, inflation and unemployment) and long-term issues (e.g., economic growth, institutional and technological change or climate change), referring at each step to the economic policies that seek to address those issues. The learning process is based on the identification and analysis of economic problems in a way that beings abstract concepts and theories in relation to actual economic reality, at both the national and international levels.

Programa

1. The Macroeconomic Perspective 2. Output Measurement and National Accounting 3. Employment, Unemployment and the Labour Market 4. Prices and Inflation 5. Economic Growth, Institutions and Technological Change 6. Aggregate Demand and Fiscal Policy 7. Money and Monetary Policy 8. Systemic Instability: Financial and Environmental 9. Inequality

Método de Avaliação

The teaching methodology is based on: (i) lectures of a mostly conceptual and theoretical character, building on the identification of specific problems; (ii) autonomous reading of texts by the students throughout the semester; and (iii) practical exercises and discussions around specific issues, with a strong anchoring in empirical reality, in the tutorials. The assessment in the Normal Season consists of three elements: • active participation in the tutorials (25%) • an individual multiple-choice midterm test (25%) • individual final exam (subject to a minimum grade of 7/20) (50%) The assessment in the Retake Season consists of the same assessment elements with the same weightings, albeit with the normal season exam replaced by the resit exam; or, in case this benefits the student, solely of the grade of the individual resit final exam (with a weighting of 100%).

Carga Horária

Bibliografia

Principal

• Lições de Macroeconomia: Uma Introdução. 2ª Edição. Editora Sílabo: Mendonça, António et al 2023 ISBN: 978-989-561-346-5
• The Economy 2.0: Macroeconomics: CORE Econ (forthcoming/no prelo) ..

Secundária

Disciplinas de Execução

2025/2026 - 2 Semestre