ECON206-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Intermediate Macroeconomics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

ECON 206 provides a basic understanding of the theoretical foundations of macroeconomics at the intermediate level. The course develops a coherent framework to understand the determination of macroeconomic variables such as national output, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, trade deficits, and exchange rates. This theoretical framework is used to interpret macroeconomic data and to analyze macroeconomic policy. The objective of this course is to help students think independently and critically about macroeconomic policies.

Learning Outcomes

1.    demonstrate an understanding of how aggregate economic variables are determined by the choices made by households, businesses, and government.
2.    explain what happens to aggregate economic behaviour when there is a change in the underlying behaviour of a part of country, or from a change in another country.
3.    analyse the effects of policy and other changes on aggregate economic outcomes that matter to people.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ECON201

Course Coordinator

Philip Gunby

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 40%
Quizzes 10%
Mid-semester test 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Macroeconomics ; 7th ed; Worth Publishers, 2009 (The 8th edition will be released shortly and it is the 8th edition which will be the course text).

Course links

Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $709.00

International fee $3,063.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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