Public University of Navarre



Academic year: 2021/2022 | Previous academic years:  2020/2021  |  2019/2020  |  2018/2019 
International Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration
Course code: 174827 Subject title: MACROECONOMICS II
Credits: 6 Type of subject: Optative Year: 4 Period: 2º S
Department: Economía
Lecturers:
CASARES POLO, MIGUEL (Resp)   [Mentoring ] DEL VILLAR OLANO, ALBA MARIA   [Mentoring ]

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Module/Subject matter

Macroeconomics.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Evaluation

Learning results Evaluation system WEIGHT (%)
R10, R11. Block 1 Mid-term exam 1 25%
R10, R12. Block 2 Mid-term exam 2 25%
R10, R11, R12 Final exam (all the contents of the course) 50%

Those students who do not take the final exam and the second-attempt exam will obtain the overall grade "NO PRESENTADO".

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. The results of the Mid-term and Final exams will be replaced for the grade obtained in the second-attempt exam that will become the overall grade in the course.

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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

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.


Blanchard, Olivier. "Macroeconomics", 8th edition, Global Edition. Pearson Education. 2021.

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Languages

English.

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Location

Aulario on Campus Arrosadia, UPNA.

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