This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The aim of this module is to introduce students to a set of tools that they can use to analyse macroeconomic issues in the short run and long run, and to help them understand which modelling techniques are appropriate for particular macroeconomic problems.
This module enhances the students' ability to understand the determinants of key macroeconomic variables including output, inflation, interest rates and exchange rates. Students’ technical skills are developed and they are expected to apply their knowledge to real-world policymaking and link it to financial issues.
Total contact hours: 42
Private study hours: 108
Total study hours: 150
80% examination, 20% coursework
Blanchard, Olivier, and David R. Johnson. Macroeconomics. 6th edition. Pearson, 2012.
N. Gregory Mankiw, Macroeconomics. 9th edition, Worth Publishers, 2015
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles within macroeconomic theory;
2 demonstrate the capability to use a range of established techniques and a reasonable level of skill in calculation and manipulation of the material to solve problems in the
following areas: basic macroeconomic concepts, understanding of macroeconomics models and macroeconomic policy;
3 apply the concepts and principles in macroeconomic theory in well-defined contexts beyond those in which they were first studied, showing the ability to evaluate critically the appropriateness of different tools and techniques.
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