Università Roma Tre

The course covers key methods and policy debates in macroeconomics, making close contact with current events from the global economic crisis that has engulfed the world economy since 2008, to the problems of the Euro area, and the role of technological progress for employment and growth. It provides an integrated view of modern macroeconomics building on basic mainstream macroeconomic models. These explain the functioning of goods market, financial markets and labor markets in the short, the medium and the long run.

Teaching material.

A password is required, and can be asked to the professor in class or by email.

IS-LM exercises. Click here: islm-exercises

Chapter 2. A tour of the book. Click here: macro_ch02

Ch. 5. The IS-LM model. Click here: macro_ch05

Ch. 6. The IS-LM model in an open economy: macro_ch06

Ch. 5BIS. The new IS-LM model and the impact of the crisis: new_islm_2016

Ch. 8. The Labour Market: macro_ch08

Ch. 9. The AD-AS Model (last update, 17/11, 10:30): macro_ch09

Ch. 10. The Phillips’s Curve (last update, 17/11, 10:30): macro_ch10

Ch. 13. The Fact of Growth: macro_ch13

Ch. 14. Savings, Capital Accumulation and Output: macro_ch14

Ch. 15. Technological Progress and Growth: macro_ch15

Ch. 17. Expectations, Consumption and Investment: macro_ch17

Ch. 18. Expectations, Output and Policy:macro_ch18

Ch. 7. Output, the Interest Rate and the Exchange Rate: macro_ch07

Ch. 21. The High Debt: macro_ch21

The course includes additional material:

Eurostat Press Release, November 2016: eurostat-press-release-november-2016-en
V.Intraligi, P.Naticchioni, Technological Change and the Labour Market: a Survey of the Literature – presentation-technology-and-labour-market
Thomas Piketty (2014), Introduction. Capital in the XXI century: Capital Piketty Introduction