Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 174827 | Subject title: MACROECONOMICS II | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: 4 | Period: 2º S | ||
| Department: Economía | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| MARTINEZ DE MORENTIN OSES, SARA (Resp) [Mentoring ] | DEIDDA , LUCA GABRIELE [Mentoring ] | ||||
Contents
This course offers students the opportunity to explore and understand issues of Macroeconomic Theory. By the end of the course, students should be able to use economic tools to analyze a diversity of issues and macroeconomic policies. This course is a core in the major and minor in the economic program at internationally-oriented universities. We will assume that students know the basic concepts of Macroeconomics thought in the Macroeconomics I. We will study macroeconomic theories and use them in analyzing relevant economic issues of today's economy, with special attention to open-economy issues, the role of expectations and the economic policies for macro stabilization.
General proficiencies
GP01. Ability to analyze and summarize.
GP04. Writing and Speaking in English.
GP07. Ability to solve problems
GP09. Team work.
GP11. Work in an international environment.
GP12. Information search.
GP17. Autonomous learning.
GP19. Creativity.
Specific proficiencies
SP01. Understand the behavior of economic institutions with formal models.
SP04. Use economic analysis with scientific instruments.
SP05. Write reports describing economic phenomena.
SP06. Research projects at international, national or regional levels.
SP10. Evaluate the performance of alternative policies and select them with technical criteria.
Learning outcomes
LO2. Model of output determination in an open economy, money, inflation, unemployment, growth and economic policy instruments.
LO9. Macroeconomic models, economic growth and development, regional and urban economics.
Methodology
| Activities | Presence Hours | Non-presence Hours |
| A-1 Lectures | 30 | |
| A-2 Seminars | 20 | |
| A-3 Discussions | 08 | |
| A-4 Homeworks | 20 | |
| A-5 Reading material | 10 | |
| A-6 Individual studying | 36 | |
| A-7 Exams | 06 | |
| A-8 Office Hours | 20 | |
| Total | 84 | 66 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome |
Assessment activity |
Weight (%) | It allows test resit |
Minimum required grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R10, R11. Block 1 |
Mid-term exam 1 | 25 | Yes | 0 |
| R10, R12. Block 2 | Mid-term exam 2 | 25 | Yes | 0 |
| R10, R11, R12 | Final exam (all the contents of the course) | 50 | Yes | 4 |
Second-attempt exam: All the students who do not pass the course after the final exam have the possibility to take the second-attempt exam, which will include all the contents of the course.
To pass the subject in the ordinary call, the student must obtain a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 in the final exam and a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 in the total grade. Those students who do not obtain the minimum required mark of 4 out of 10 in the ordinary final exam and whose average of the ordinary evaluation (including this ordinary final exam) reaches 5 out of 10, will obtain a final grade of 4 out of 10 (FAIL).
Agenda
Block I
1. Financial Markets and Expectations
2. Expectations, Consumption, and Investment
3. Expectations, Output, and Policy
Block II
4. Openness in Goods and Financial Markets
5. The Goods Market in an Open Economy
6. Output, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate
7. Exchange Rate Regimes
Block III
8. Should Policy Makers Be Restrained?
9. Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Blanchard, Olivier. "Macroeconomics", 8th edition, Global Edition. Pearson Education. 2021.