Teaching program

Teaching content:

• National accounting system
• Economic growth
• Money and inflation in the long run
• Labour market and unemployment
• Government activity, fiscal policy and public debt
• Overall economic demand and goods market
• Money supply and demand
• Macroeconomic demand, output and interest rates

Qualification goals:

The students

• are familiarized with the subject of macroeconomic theory,
• get to know the central macroeconomic variables, such as national product, consumption, savings, investment and important economic policy targets such as economic growth, unemployment and inflation,
• get to know basic macroeconomic approaches with which macroeconomic variables can be explained.

Requirements:

written exam | 90 minutes
Registration for the module examination required.

Modules:

BBMVWL310 Makroökonomik 1

Teaching Content

• Models of exogenous and endogenous growth,
• Measurement and presentation of inequality,
• Growth and inequality,
• Solution methods for growth models (dynamic optimization), empirical approaches to the analysis of growth theoretical issues.

Qualification goals:

The students

• have in-depth knowledge of growth and distribution theory and the current state of research in these areas,
• are able to deal with current growth and distribution policy issues with the help of economic theories and to make well-founded assessments of economic policy measures,
• have a command of the methods for the theoretical analysis of dynamic economic models and are able to apply them independently to current economic policy issues.

Requirements:

Lecture: written exam | 90 minutes
Registration for the module examination required.

Tutorial: Problem Sets

Übung: Problem Sets

Modules:

MA-P-310
MA-P-320

Teaching content:

Preparation of an exposé and writing of the final thesis with the support of the chair.

Requirements:

Completion of the basic studies and several advanced modules

Qualification goals:

Students

• can independently work on scientific papers on specific economic issues,
• are able to create a research design, structure their research project and develop a work plan
• can present their research project convincingly and defend it against critical objections,
• are able to apply adequate scientific methods to solutions of the research question and to justify the choice of methods.

Requirements:

Presentation | Defense of the Master thesisRegistration for the module examination required.

Module:

MA-F-100