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M200 - Macroeconomics I - Macroeconomic Analysis
This course covers key theoretical and empirical contributions that help to explain and analyze macroeconomic phenomena. It investigates economic growth, business cycles, consumption, investment, unemployment, rigidities, fiscal and monetary policy, and exchange rates.
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M210 - Macroeconomics II - Macroeconomic Theory
This course supplements Macroeconomics I by providing a more thorough theoretical background. It covers the main technical tools and modeling frameworks that are fundamental to macroeconomics, such as dynamic programming, recursive equilibrium, Ramsey model, Diamond model, search and matching, Lucas tree and island model, the Blanchard-Kahn method and the dynamic New Keynesian model.
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M220 - Advanced Topics in Macroeconomic Theory
This course builds on Macroeconomics II and provides further preparation for doing research in macroeconomics. It covers the key modeling frameworks that are common in advanced macroeconomic theory, focusing on new open economy macroeconomics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.
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M230 - Applied Macroeconomics
The aim of this course is to extend knowledge of macroeconomic theory to applied issues concerned with the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy, the forecasting and modelling of macroeconomic processes and the understanding of business cycle fluctuations in the world economy.
