Università Roma Tre

The course offers an introduction to theories, models and methods currently used to analyze macroeconomic dynamics. The main focus is on long-run dynamics and growth, but the course deals also with traditional topics such as consumption, investment, saving, money and credit. Discussion will mostly concern post-II World War theories. Among these, it deals with Solow and Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans exogenous growth theories, as well as with the more recent endogenous growth theories. Methodologically, the course makes an intensive use of deterministic, general equilibrium models in discrete time. Topics and methods are considered essential references and tools by most institutions engaged in macroeconomic analysis (e.g. central banks, institutes analyzing business cycles, supervisory boards and authorities, commercial banks). Further they form an essential prerequisite for more advanced courses in macroeconomics and economic policy and to pursue graduate studies.