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B000088 - ECONOMIC POLICY
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Course program
Academic Year 2012-13
Course year
Second year -
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SECS-P/02 - ECONOMIC POLICY
Credits
9
Teaching Hours
63
Teaching Term
⇒
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B000088 - POLITICA ECONOMICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum STUDI POLITICI
B000088 - POLITICA ECONOMICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum STUDI POLITICI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Basic concepts of macroeconomics. The short run: the goods market, the financial markets and the economic policy. The medium run: the labour market, inflation and unemployment. The open economy: the exchange rate, goods and financial markets in the open economy, exchange rate regimes. Economic policy in Europe: basic concepts of monetary and fiscal policies for the European Union members states.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Amighini, Blanchard, Giavazzi (2014), Macroeconomia, Il Mulino.
Chapters 1-11, 19-25
Exercise Book: D.Findlay (2014) Esercizi di Macroeconomia,Guida allo studio del testo di Olivier Blanchard, Il Mulino. This book is essential to prepare the written exam.
Chapters 1-11, 19-25
Exercise Book: D.Findlay (2014) Esercizi di Macroeconomia,Guida allo studio del testo di Olivier Blanchard, Il Mulino. This book is essential to prepare the written exam.
Learning Objectives
Students will achieve a basic knowledge of how the economy works and the effects of economic policies. The analysis will be conducted with analytical models and real-world examples.
Teaching Methods
Two-hours lectures.
Further information
Foreign students are allowed to use the English version of the book by Olivier Blanchard, Macroeconomics, Fifth Edition, Pearson ducation, Inc.
Exams are in Italian.
Exams are in Italian.
Type of Assessment
Written exam.
Course program
I part
National accounting and main macroeconomic variables. Economy in the short-run: the goods and the financial markets. Fiscal and monetary policies and their short-run effects. The labour market: unemployment and wages. The Phillips curve.
II part
The economy in the medium run: putting all markets together. The open economy: the balance of payment and international trade. The exchange rate and the goods and financial markets. The European economic and monetary Union.
III part
Pathologies: depressions and slumps, hyperinflation, high public debt. Back to economic policies.
National accounting and main macroeconomic variables. Economy in the short-run: the goods and the financial markets. Fiscal and monetary policies and their short-run effects. The labour market: unemployment and wages. The Phillips curve.
II part
The economy in the medium run: putting all markets together. The open economy: the balance of payment and international trade. The exchange rate and the goods and financial markets. The European economic and monetary Union.
III part
Pathologies: depressions and slumps, hyperinflation, high public debt. Back to economic policies.