Postgraduate Course: Macroeconomics 1 (ECNM11024)
Course Outline
| School | School of Economics |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The aim of this module is to introduce you to the (i) theoretical analysis of growth, and income differences, (ii) basic micro founded search theories of employment and unemployment and (iii) intertemporal models of consumption, asset pricing and investment decisions. By the end of the module you should be able to outline and manipulate a number of popular theoretical models, derive and analyse the relevant policy conclusions implied by them, and refer to the available evidence. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students should be registered for MSc Economics or MSc Economics (Finance). All other students must email sgpe@ed.ac.uk in advance to request permission.
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| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Students should be registered for MSc Economics or MSc Economics (Finance). All other students must email sgpe@ed.ac.uk in advance to request permission.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 73 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 36,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 18,
External Visit Hours 12,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 14,
Formative Assessment Hours 3,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Revision Session Hours 5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
105 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The final examination in the April / May diet counts for 70 per cent of the total grade. The remaining 30 per cent of the final grade comes from a three-hour class test in December. |
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding of the stylized facts of long-run economic growth, of the models in which the driving forces of growth are both exogenously and endogenously determined and of the empirics of growth in the long-run.
Knowledge and understanding of search-based models of unemployment in the labour market and the policy implications arising from those models.
Knowledge and understanding of intertemporal models of consumption and asset pricing.
Knowledge and understanding of the techniques for dynamic macroeconomic analysis.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.sgpe.ac.uk/ |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Holt
Tel: (0131 6)50 8350
Email: Richard.Holt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Marie Craft
Tel: (0131 6)51 1764
Email: marie.craft@ed.ac.uk |
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