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
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)