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Course title Macroeconomics II
Course code EBC4062
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
2 26-10-2020 11-12-2020 X X
Level Advanced
Coordinator Lenard Lieb
For more information: l.lieb@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction
Goals
This course is an advanced macroeconomic course. The students are expected to apply the models learnt in Macroeconomics in order to write a publishable empirical paper in international macroeconomics and finance
Description
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The main goal of this course is to apply the concepts analysed in "Macroeconomics". While the classic literature from twenty and thirty years ago can be admired for articulating and attempting to formalize a number of central policy issues, its limitations are many. The classic approach lacks the micro foundations needed for internal consistency, it fails to deal with dynamics in any coherent way, and its vision of capital market integration may generously be described as narrow. Perhaps most importantly, the older literature simply doesn’t deal sensibly with many questions that are central to today’s policy world, such as current accounts, government budget deficits, speculative attacks, and the implications of the expanding global markets for securities and derivatives. A limited number of problems in international finances will be investigated within a systematic modern approach. New approaches will be also developed as well as new methodologies to investigate the new topics in international finance.
Literature
Obstfeld, Maurice & Kenneth Rogoff, Foundations of International Macroeconomics, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.
Prerequisites
Macroeconomics I
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Papers
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Participation / Written Exam
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Master Economic and Financial Research - Econometrics Year 2 Elective Course(s)
Master Economic and Financial Research - No specialisation Year 2 Elective Course(s)