Universität Wien

040216 VO Makroökonomie (MA) (2020W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Details

Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 05.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 12.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 19.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 09.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 16.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 23.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 30.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 07.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 14.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 11.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 18.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Montag 25.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course covers topics in the realm of macroeconomics that will help students understand and analyze the macroeconomic performance of countries both in the long run and at business-cycle frequencies.

This lecture course reviews material on macroeconomics that participants know from their bachelor studies and aims at deepening this knowledge. The textbook "Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System" (Wendy Carlin & David Soskice; Oxford University Press) serves as the main literature for this course. Topics to be covered are:

1. Demand side, supply side, national accounts and macroeconomic policy;
2. Money, banking and the macro-economy;
3. The open economy

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

A written test of 90 minutes

If space and health restrictions permit this, the exam will be closed-book and it will be written in a lecture theater. Otherwise, it will be open-book on-line, with a slightly extended time frame of 120 minutes.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The test is marked on a point scale. 50 out of 100 possible points are required to pass the exam.

Prüfungsstoff

Slides are made accessible to participants.
Topics roughly correspond to sections 1-3, 5, 9-10 of the indicated textbook.

Literatur

"Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System" (Wendy Carlin & David Soskice; Oxford University Press)
Additional reading for international economics:
"International Economics" (Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld and Marc J. Melitz: Pearson)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:12