Excerpt from course description
- English
- GRA 6634
- 6 Credits
Introduction
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole. The course offers an introduction to macroeconomics at an advanced level. It provides the students with analytical skills and applied insights to understand important macroeconomic variables such as consumption, investment, productivity, and aggregate output – domestically as well as internationally. Throughout the course students will acquire insight into consumption and saving decisions, economic growth, sustaintability, inequality, international income convergence, and investment. Attention is paid to developing digital tools to help analyzing and understanding economic models.
Course content
The course covers the following topics:
- Consumption and saving
- Investment
- Solow growth model
- Neoclassical growth model
- Inequality, sustainability
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