Lesson plan / INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator Prof. Dr. CELAL NAZIM İREM
Instructor (s) Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) SALVATORE JOSEPH TERREGROSSA
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The goal of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of macroeconomics. The students learn what is nation’s total output, how national economies work, efficiency of different economic policies to correct economic problems such as inflation and unemployment.
Course Content The course covers the basic concepts on measuring a nation’s income, measuring the cost of living, real economy and growth and unemployment, monetary system and inflation, open economy and short-run trade-offs.

Weekly Course Subjects

1National Income; Income and Expenditure, measurement of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumption, Investment.
2Production and Growth; Economic growth, Productivity, Production Function, Economic Growth and Public Policy, Saving, Investment and Financial System.
3Unemployment; measurement of unemployment, wages, unions and collective bargaining.
4Unemployment; measurement of unemployment, wages and differences in gender, public policy and job search, the theory of efficiency wages.
5The monetary system; money, functions and history of money, federal reserve system, banking and money system.
6Money growth and inflation; value of money and demand and supply of money, inflation and cost of inflation.
7Open economy macroeconomics; international flow of goods and capital, flow of financial resources, saving and inflation of international flow.
8Prices of international transactions; exchange rates, real and nominal exchange rates, purchasing power parity.
9Midterm exam
10Macroeconomic theory of open economy; equilibrium of open economy, net capital outflow, equilibrium in two markets, effects of policies and events to the open economy. Aggregate demand and supply; demand and supply curves, short run economic fluctuations.
11Monetary and fiscal policy; interest rates in short and long run, money supply.
12Fiscal policy and stabilizing the economy; fiscal policy influences, changing in government behaviors.
13The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment; the Phillips curve, shift in Phillips curve, cost of reducing inflation.
14Review for the exam.

Resources

Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, Published by South Western, 2007.