AY 2015-2016
MACROECONOMICS (40h) PROF NICOLA DIMITRI
LECTURES CALENDAR (40h) Thursday (T)-Friday (F).
Thursday lectures are held at 12-14 in Room 5 while Friday lectures at 16-18 in Room 1.
MARCH 2016
(1) T 3; (2) F 4; (3) F 11; (4) T 17; (5) F 18; (6) T 31 APRIL 2016
(7) T 7; (8) F 8; (9) T 14; (10) F 15; (11) T21 (12) F 22; (13) T28; (14) F 29 MAY 2016
(15) T 5 (16) F 6 (17) T 12 (18) F 13 (19) T 19 (20) F 20
Content
Most of the course will be based on the Ramsey and the Overlapping Generations models, the two main intertemporal macroeconomic models. The rest of the course will deal with the principal theories of expectation formation as well as with some classical theories of unemployment
Main References
Blanchard- Fisher “ Lectures on Macroeconomics” (MIT Press) 1989.
Romer “Advanced Macroeconomics” (McGraw Hill) 2012 Further readings will be indicated during the course Office Hours (March-May 2016)
Wednesday 18-20; Friday 18-20