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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of mathematics, statistics and macroeconomics.
Objectives
Contents The course explores some macroeconomic issues of international relevance such as national accounting integrated with the matrix of flows and funds, issues related to economic growth, analysis of currency areas and monetary unions. The sustainability of public debt.
Extended Syllabus Course contents:
1. Insights into national accounting: analysis of flows and funds.
2. The theory of optimal currency areas and its application to the European Monetary Union.
3. Economic growth: the Solow model, the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model, the endogenous growth models.
4. Insights on the theories of consumption and investment.
5. The regulation of financial and credit intermediaries.
6. Ayimmetric information and the credit market.
7. The sustainability of the debt / GDP ratio.
8. Empirical tests on growth theories.
Recommended Bibliography The teaching material consists of articles and lecture notes that will be made available by the teacher at the beginning of the course.
Teaching Methods Lectures and tutorial aimed at verifying the learning of the students about the topics examined in the lectures
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final exam will be divided into a written test on
topics covered during the course and present in the program. The written test will consist of theoretical questions, exercises and problems, to which they will be attributed a total of 30 points.
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