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Module

NBS8252 : Macroeconomic Theory

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Roberto Bonilla Trejos
  • Owning School: Newcastle University Business School
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

The module starts with an introduction to growth theory to study the economy’s performance in the long run. It then moves to study the IS-PC-MR to develop students’ understanding of how the economy works in the short run and analyse monetary policy, to give students the opportunity to apply these models to the analysis of various economic shocks and evaluate the effect of policies on the economy. Finally, the module covers unemployment theory, including efficiency-wage theories, contracting, insider/outsider theory, and search and matching models.

Outline Of Syllabus

Lectures 1-2:

Growth Theory: The Solow Model

Lectures 3-5

The IS-PC-MR model in a closed economy
Economic Shocks and policy response
Extending the model to an open economy

Lecture 6-7
Unemployment theory: 1)Efficiency-wage theories, 2)Contracting, insider/outsider theory
3) Search and matching models

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion141:0041:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture72:0014:00PiP lectures
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching31:003:00PiP Seminars
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study142:0042:00N/A
Total100:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures provide the theoretical framework for the study of Macroeconomics.
Seminars provide an opportunity to enhance and test the understanding gained in lectures and private study.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams
Description Length Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Written Examination902A100Standard written examination
Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Description Semester When Set Comment
Prob solv exercises2MPractice questions are available
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The written exam consists of a set of scenarios that test students’ ability to select the appropriate framework for analysis, use it to predict the most likely outcomes for the macroeconomy and present the argument in a logical and coherent way, paying attention to the limitations of the models used.

Reading Lists

Timetable