Macroeconomics

Catalog description

This course serves as a graduate level introduction to some fundamental questions in macroeconomics. We first theoretically and empirically study determinants of economic growth before proceeding to some major determinants of goods and labor supply and demand. We discuss fiscal and monetary policy issues as well as economic growth applying the methods and techniques used for the analysis of dynamic optimization problems using functional equations: dynamic programming. This 4 credit course (70 contact hours) counts towards the Master of Science in Economics. Prerequisites are knowledge of multivariable calculus as covered in ECON-GH 5000 Math Camp.