EC2010 Intermediate Economics


Course outline

Teaching assistants

Marta Zieba, ziebam (at) tcd.ie. Office hours: Friday, 10:00 – 12:00, room 3002.

Theo Talbot, theodore.talbot (at) gmail.com. Office hours: Tuesday, 11:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 14:00, room 3002.

Slides

Topic 1: What is macroeconomics? What are the facts?

Topic 2: The IS-LM model

Topic 3: The labour market

Topic 4: The AS-AD model

Topic 5: The natural rate of unemployment and the Phillips curve

Topic 6: Economic activity, inflation and money growth

Topic 7: The facts of growth

Topic 8: Capital accumulation and technological progress

Problem sets

Problem set 1: questions, partial answers.

Problem set 2: questions, partial answers.

Problem set 3: questions, complete answers.

Problem set 4: questions, partial answers.

Problem set 5: questions, partial answers.

Problem set 6: questions.

Problem set 7: questions.

Further (optional) readings

Paul Krugman, Two cheers for formalism

Paul Krugman, There's something about macro

Olivier Blanchard, What do we know about macroeconomics that Fisher and Wicksell did not?

Michael Woodford, Revolution and evolution in twentieth-century macroeconomics

Olivier Blanchard, European unemployment: the evolution of facts and ideas

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