175.060 Economics 2

2012S, VO, 2.0h, 3.0EC

Properties

  • Semester hours: 2.0
  • Credits: 3.0
  • Type: VO Lecture

Aim of course

The students should develop a critical understanding of the main issues and propositions of macroeconomics.

Subject of course

1. birth of macroeconomics; 2. evolution of macroeconomic variables in selected countries during the last decades; 3. national income accounting; 4. multiplier model; 5. financial markets and the creation of money; 6. IS-LM model; 7. labor market and the natural rate of unemployment; 8. AS-AD model; 9. The current financial and economic crisis

Lecturers

Institute

Course dates

DayTimeDateLocationDescription
Fri08:15 - 10:0002.03.2012 - 28.06.2012EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri10:00 - 12:0008.06.2012EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW extra lecture for very interested students
Economics 2 - Single appointments
DayDateTimeLocationDescription
Fri02.03.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri09.03.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri16.03.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri23.03.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri30.03.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri20.04.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri27.04.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri04.05.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri11.05.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri25.05.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri01.06.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri08.06.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri08.06.201210:00 - 12:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW extra lecture for very interested students
Fri15.06.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF
Fri22.06.201208:15 - 10:00EI 3 Sahulka HS - UIW HOF

Examination modalities

oral exam

Course registration

Not necessary

Curricula

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Literature

Lecture notes will be provided step by step; download http://www.econ.tuwien.ac.at/hof/wirtschaft2.html (username and password will be announced via TISS-News before the first lecture). The lecture is based on selected chapters of

Blanchard, Olivier und Gerhard Illing, Makroökonomie, 5., aktualisierte Auflage, Pearson Studium, 2009 or
Francesco Giavazzi, Alessia Amighini und Olivier Blanchard, Macroeconomics a European Perspective, Financial Times Prentice Hall (24. Juni 2010)

Miscellaneous

Language

German