Skip to Main Content

ECON3021: Intermediate macroeconomics (中级总体经济理论): Home

Course Description

In this course, we will study the overall behaviour of an extensive collection of economic agents. The course is divided into long-term growth and short-term business cycles. Study growth, inflation, unemployment, and government debt in the long run. In the short term, we study economic shocks and monetary policy. Macroeconomic models based on micro-foundations will be discussed.

这门课我们将学习长期经济增长,和短期经济波动。包括增长,通货膨胀,就业,政府债务,货币政策等。其他题目包括国际贸易和金融介绍,收入和消费。

Recommended Books

Macroeconomics

The book teaches us to think like modern macroeconomists, with strong and engaging growth coverage and a more intuitive approach to models. Adopters praised them for their clear explanations, flexible organisation, timely case studies, data and emphasis on problem-solving. Macroeconomics gives us the practical tools we need to understand and analyse macroeconomy. This innovative text makes macroeconomics less complicated without sacrificing rigour.

Advanced Macroeconomics

The fifth edition of Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics continues its tradition as the standard text and the starting point for graduate macroeconomics courses. It helps lay the groundwork for researching macroeconomics and monetary economics. Romer presents the major theories concerning the central questions of macroeconomics. The theoretical analysis is supplemented by examples of relevant empirical work, illustrating how ideas can be applied and tested. In areas ranging from economic growth and short-run fluctuations to the natural unemployment rate and monetary policy, formal models present and analyze key ideas and issues.

Recommeded Databases

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the importance of economic growth and development and the theories that seek to explain reasons for economic growth.
  • Handle macroeconomic models both graphically and algebraically.
  • Evaluate the effects of macroeconomic policies and shocks on the domestic economy in the short run and how macroeconomic aggregates are determined in the long run.
  • Understand the theoretical and practical limitations of monetary policy and fiscal policy.
  • Understand the functioning of fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes.