wir110 - Macroeconomic Theory (Complete module description)
Module label | Macroeconomic Theory |
Module code | wir110 |
Credit points | 6.0 KP |
Workload | 180 h |
Institute directory | Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Business Administration and Business Education) |
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Prerequisites | - |
Skills to be acquired in this module | At the end of the course, successful students: • understand the interdependence of market processes and economic policy in the subsystems of the economy, • avoid fallacies of composition in the nexus of microeconomics and macroeconomics, • use macroeconomics as a tool to analyse current economic and political issues, • translate economic problems into models that describe macroeconomic causalities and interdependencies by reasonable reductions of complexity, • interpret selected data in the light of macroeconomic theories. |
Module contents | The course starts with an introduction to the principles of national accounting which serve as point of departure for the presentation of basic macroeconomic models in short-term, medium-term and long-term perspectives. Short-term: Consumption, saving, investment and finance in the closed-economy IS/LM framework. Medium-term: Labour supply & demand, production and inflation in the AS/AD framework and extensions to open-economy analysis. Long-term: capital accumulation, technical progress and economic growth in different approaches. The basic models are presented in words, algebra and diagrams with the aid of case studies and other exemplary material. |
Recommended reading | Blanchard, O. & Illing, G. (2017): Makroökonomie (7. Aufl.). München: Pearson. (or English versions: Blanchard, O.: Macroeconomics, 7th ed. Pearson 2017) Trautwein, H.-M. (2014): Makroökonomik (3rd ed.). Oldenburg: Verlag für Wirtschaft, Informatik und Recht. |
Links | http://www.vwl.uni-oldenburg.de/ |
Language of instruction | German |
Duration (semesters) | 1 Semester |
Module frequency | jährlich |
Module capacity | unlimited |
Reference text | The module combines lectures and tutorials. The lectures present the contents in terms of macroeconomic models and their contexts, while the tutorials serve to improve the understanding of the models by way of exercises. Course materials are uploaded on the Stud.IP website of the module. |
Type of course | Comment | SWS | Frequency | Workload of compulsory attendance |
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Lecture | 3 | 42 | ||
Exercises | 1 | 14 | ||
Total module attendance time | 56 h |
Examination | Prüfungszeiten | Type of examination |
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Final exam of module | end of term |
written exam; voluntary contributions that improve grades may undertaken as 'portfolio-presentations' during tutorials |