The aim of this course is to provide the major technical tools necessary to understand the macroeconomic literature currently published in professional journals, research reports, institutional documents and the like.
Prerequisites
Basic Microeconomics and Math
Teaching Methods
Classes and homeworks
Type of Assessment
Final examination
Course program
Growth (Solow model and endogenous growth theory up to the Romer and Aghion-Howitt model with endogenous innovation)
Consumption: microfoundations and effects of taxation and Ricardian Equivalence
Investment and imperfections in the credit market
International economics and trade
Imperfect competition and monopolistic competition and applications to macroeconomics
Real business cycle
Political economy
Money and monetary economics
New Keynesian economics
Asset pricing
Equilibrium unemployment theory