ECC4660 - Macroeconomics
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate, Postgraduate Faculty of Business and Economics
Leader(s): Dr Steph Miller
Offered
Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Australia (Other) First semester 2009 (Off-campus block of classes)
Synopsis
Contemporary macroeconomics and recent policy debates, including market clearing and long-run equilibrium; classical dichotomy; money in the global economy; aggregate demand and price rigidity, microfoundations of macroeconomics, disequilibrium models; stock-flow interactions; wealth effects; rational expectations; policy ineffectiveness and Ricardian equivalence; money and credit; exchange rate regimes; new Keynesian macroeconomics; comovements of macro variables and macroeconomic forecasting.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%
Contact hours
3 hours per week
Prohibitions
13 October 2017
03 July 2024