Macroeconomic Theory

3.00 credits · Graduate

An introduction to graduate-level macroeconomic theory, including topics such as economic growth, consumption, investment, real and nominal frictions in the goods, labour, and credit markets, models of short-run economic fluctuations, and monetary and fiscal policy design. Mathematical treatments of current macroeconomics models that are popular in the literature, including classical and new-Keynesian rational expectations models, real business cycle models, and models that can generate multiple equilibria, as well as empirical evidence.