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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:	unknown / unknown (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

Annotation

The course deals with the analysis of aggregate demand, which is then extended by the issues of prices and labour market. The business cycle analysis is performed within the framework of AD-AS model. Finally, the course presents the basics of economic growth theory.

Last update: Pošta Vít (13.01.2021)

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

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)

Teaching methods
	Activity	Credits	Hours
	Účast na přednáškách	1	28
	Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi	2	56
	Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování	2	56
	Účast na seminářích	1	28
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