Macroeconomics I (Makroökonomie I - Undergraduate Course)


Lectures and Discussion Sections: Tuesday, 10:15am-11:45am and 12:30 pm-2:00 pm, Room H IV (weekly); Thursday, 08:15 pm-09:45 pm (we will be starting at 08:30 sharp and the lecture will be going until 10:00), Room H IV (weekly).


Important Class Announcement Concerning your Evaluation and your right to see your exam materials (Klausureinsicht): Please, download this pdf file for instructions concerning the registration for the Klausureinsicht (notice that the registration deadline for the Klausureinsicht is Wednesday, March 26, 2008).

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The textbook we will be using for the class is,

"Macroeconomics" by Olivier Blanchard (4th edition)

or, equivalently, you can use the German translation of the same book,

"Makroökonomie" by Olivier Blanchard and Gerhard Illing (4th Edition)

List of topics

1. Introduction (Chapter 1)
2. National Income Accounting (Chapter 2)
3. The Goods Market (Chapter 3)
4. The Financial Market (Chapter 4)
5. The IS-LM Model (Chapter 5)
6. The Labor Market (Chapter 6)
7. The AS-AD Model (Chapter 7)
8. The Phillips Curve (Chapter 8)
9. Inflation Expectations and Short/Medium-Run Analysis (Chapter 9)
10. Open Economy (Chapters 18-20, selected parts)
11. Long-Run Macroeconomics (Chapters 10-11)

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