ECN 202E - Intermediate Macroeconomics

Course Objectives

This course is an intermediate macroeconomics course designed to teach you the models for analyzing the macroeconomic concepts such as growth, investment, business cycles, inflation, unemployment etc.

Course Description

We will build upon your knowledge from principles of macro course and deal with more advanced analysis. We will start with “classical theory” to understand the determinants of main macroeconomic variables in the long run. Then we will switch to Keynesian models and talk about IS/LM model to analyze the causes of short-run fluctuations and how policy makers can affect this.