Economic Theories 31 (Seminar from Macroekonomics)

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Department of Social Sciences

Synopsis:

This subject aims to extend, improve and practise knowledge from the macroeconmic theory. Students? active and independent work is expected while preparing for tutorials and during them as well. Syllabus of this subject is formed mainly by evaluation and calculation of basic macroeconomic aggregates (gross domestic product, gross national product, national income, personal and disposable income), analysis of the monetary and fiscal policy in the IS-LM model, determination of the equilibrium output in Keynes model 45˚, the theory of the economic growth, problems of inflation and unemployment, the theory of investment, problems of the economic policy in varous stages of business cycle and the theory of the external economic equilibrium,

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No prerequisites

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Study Objective:

Students should gain deeper knowledge of macroeconomic connections and are led to apply their knowledge in practice: to evaluate the efficiency of economy by calculating main macroeconomic aggregates, the inflation rate and rate of the unemployment. We aim to enable our students to work independently with macroeconomic models. The topics studied allow them to practise nad apply their gained knowledge.

Study materials:

Liška, V. a kol.: Makroekonomie. Professional publishing 2002.

Tuleja, P. - Majerová, I. - Nezval, P.: Základy makroekonomie: učebnice pro ekonomické a obchodně podnikatelské fakulty. Brno, Computer press 2006.

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

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