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Course, academic year 2020/2021
  
Macroeconomics - AB501015
Title: Macroeconomics
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:6
E-Credits: summer s.:6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Pošta Vít doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Classification: Economics > Economy
Is interchangeable with: B501015
Examination dates   Schedule   
Course completion requirements

To be admitted to the exam the student needs to obtain at least 50 % of the points in two written assessements during the semestre. The first assessement has a weight of 35 % and the second assessement has a weight of 65 %. The second assessement may be retaken once. Then, the student needs to obtain at least 50 % of points in a written exam. The exam may be oral via MSTeams in case contact exam is not possible due to policy measures.

Last update: Pošta Vít (12.09.2023)
Literature

R: Mankiw N G. Macroeconomics, 9th edition. Worth Publishers. 2018.

A: Dornbusch R, Fischer S, Startz R. Macroeconomics, 13th edition. McGraw-Hill Education. in print 2020

Last update: Pošta Vít (11.09.2020)
Requirements to the exam

To be admitted to the exam the student needs to obtain at least 50 % of the points in two written assessements during the semestre. The first assessement has a weight of 35 % and the second assessement has a weight of 65 %. The second assessement may be retaken once. Then, the student needs to obtain at least 50 % of points in a written exam. The exam may be oral via MSTeams in case contact exam is not possible due to policy measures.

Last update: Pošta Vít (12.09.2023)
Syllabus

1. GDP and national accounting.

2. Consumption.

3. Investment.

4. Foreign trade.

5. Government sector and fiscal policy.

6. Exchange rate.

7. Money market and monetary policy.

8. Inflation and rigidities.

9. Labor market.

10. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply.

11. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply and Phillips‘ curves.

12. Phillips‘ curves.

13. Solow model.

14. Solow model.

Last update: Pošta Vít (11.09.2020)
 
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