Type A
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Code |
Competences Specific | | A1 |
Saber explicar el funcionament de l'economia tant a nivell macroeconòmic com microeconòmic. |
| A6 |
Analitzar els diversos contexts professionals en els que treballa un economista: la cojuntura econòmica, el sector, el mercat, l'empresa i el departament en qüestió. |
| A9 |
Redactar projectes de gestió econòmica a nivell internacional, nacional, regional, local o de l'empresa. |
Type B
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Code |
Competences Transversal | | B4 |
Autonomy, responsibility and initiative |
Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear | | C1 |
Have an intermediate mastery of a foreign language, preferably English |
| C4 |
Be able to express themselves correctly both orally and in writing in one of the two official languages of the URV |
Type A
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| A1 |
Sap analitzar el curt termini: sap explicar (i) els efectes de polítiques monetàries i fiscals en una economia tancada i en una economia oberta i (ii) l’ajust d’una economia amb un desequilibri extern.
Sap analitzar el curt i mitjà termini: sap explicar els efectes de polítiques monetàries, fiscals i d’oferta en una economia oberta, així com els ajustos de l’economia davant desequilibris.
Sap analitzar el paper de les expectatives en l’anàlisi macroeconòmica.
| | A6 |
Sap analitzar la conjuntura econòmica i preveure'n les implicacions macroeconòmiques.
| | A9 |
Sap analitzar la informació de caràcter econòmic i preveure'n les implicacions macroeconòmiques.
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Type B
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| B4 |
Do the work planned in accordance with the quality criteria provided.
Decide how to manage and organize work and time.
Decide how to do a particular job so that it is of the highest quality possible.
Decide what needs to be done for a particular job/project and do it according to schedule.
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Type C
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| C1 |
Understand routine information and articles.
Recollir en apunts part de la informació que s'imparteix en una classe
| | C4 |
Produce well-structured, clear and rich written texts
Produce written texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation
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Topic |
Sub-topic |
1. Fiscal and monetary policy in the short term |
• Introduction
• The market for goods and the IS curve
• The market for money and the LM curve
• Equilibrium
• Fiscal Policy
• Monetary Policy |
2. Demand policies and the exchange rate |
• International trade and the foreign exchange market
• Equilibrium in an open economy
• Balance of Payments
• Monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy in an open economy |
3. The economy in the medium-term: the AS-AD model |
• Aggregate demand
• The labour market and aggregate supply
• Equilibrium
• Fiscal, monetary and supply policies
• Open economy |
4. Expectations |
• Expectations in economic theory
• Adaptive expectations
• Rational expectations
• Application to the AS-AD model |
5. Economic growth |
• Growth facts
• Saving
• Technological progress |
Methodologies :: Tests |
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Competences |
(*) Class hours
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Hours outside the classroom
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(**) Total hours |
Introductory activities |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
Lecture |
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35 |
35 |
70 |
Problem solving, classroom exercises |
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10 |
20 |
30 |
Case study |
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10 |
20 |
30 |
Assignments |
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0.5 |
15 |
15.5 |
Personal tuition |
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0.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
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Extended-answer tests |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
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(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher. (**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies
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Description |
Introductory activities |
Activities designed to make contact with students, collect information from them and introduce the subject. |
Lecture |
Description of the contents of the subject, raising questions and proposing real life situations to be studied with the analysis presented. |
Problem solving, classroom exercises |
Formulation, analysis, resolution and debate of a problem or exercise related to the topic of the subject. |
Case study |
Students study a particular situation and must propose a reasoned solution, answer a series of questions or carry out a global analysis. |
Assignments |
Essays and other work done by the students. |
Description |
Office hours to be communicated the first day classes will be held. |
Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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Case study |
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Students' participation in the study and ressolution of practical cases will be taken into account. |
5% |
Assignments |
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The students will carry out an assignment whose contents will be explained at the beginning of the course. They will carry out a presentation on the last week of the course. |
20% |
Extended-answer tests |
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There will be one exam during the lective period that will account for a 25% of the overall mark, and another exam on the date of the first official examination session that will account for 50% of the overall mark. |
25%
50% |
Others |
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Other comments and second exam session |
If the student does not follow the continuous assessment, he or she shoul contact the professor during the first week of the course. On the date of the second official examination session there will be an exam that will account for 100% of the overall mark. |
Basic |
R. Dornbusch, S. Fischer, R. Startz, Macroeconomía, 10a, McGrawHill
O. Blanchard, Macroeconomía, 4a, Pearson Prentice Hall
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Complementary |
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Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS/16214005 |
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(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. |
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