Angewandte VWL: Growth, Development and Sustainability

Dozent/in:

Christian Proaño

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, Nachhaltigkeit, Please register in the VC course to participate. The ZOOM address will be indicated on the first slides for this course.

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Webinar

Inhalt:

The course is intended to give students an introduction into theories and stylized facts of long-term economic growth and sustainability. Models of various schools of economic thought will be discussed and compared to each other. The relation of growth, environmental issues and inequality will be explored. After successful completion of the course, students should be able to approach the related academic literature as well as current policy debates. Knowledge of basic concepts of macroeconomics and microeconomics is required. Students should have completed the respective introductory courses.

Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung 2: Disequilibrium and Behavioral Macroeconomics

Dozent/in:

Christian Proaño

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 4 SWS, ECTS: 6, Please register in the VC course to participate. The ZOOM address will be indicated on the first slides for this course.

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Webinar

Inhalt:

This course focuses on various deviations from the neoclassical modeling paradigm consisting of general equilibrium, intertemporal utility maximization and rational expectations. Among many other issues, some questions which are addressed in this course are: Is macroeconomic activity an equilibrium or a disequilibrium phenomenon? What role do expectations play in macroeconomic stability? Are there macroeconomic processes which are inherently unstable and if so, what can macroeconomic policy do about it?

Diplomandenseminar

Dozent/in:

Christian Proaño

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS

Termine:

Zeit und Ort nach Vereinbarung

V/S: Advanced Macroeconomics

Dozent/in:

Christian Proaño

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Please register in the VC course to participate. The ZOOM address will be indicated on the first slides for this course.

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Webinar

Inhalt:

Macroeconomic analysis is primarily concerned with two issues: (i) developing positive models in order to understand the dynamics of key macroeconomic variables such as output, employment, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, etc.; and (ii) deriving normative prescriptions for macroeconomic policymaking, in particular regarding the proper setting of fiscal and monetary policies. The course begins with a discussion of empirical facts regarding business cycles and growth to be explained by macroeconomic models and then provides an example of the role of economic policy as a macroeconomic stabilization mechanism based on a traditional reduced-form model of the macro-economy. The second part of the course deals in more detail with several building blocks for macroeconomic models based on intertemporal optimization along the neoclassical tradition. The third part of the course focuses in contrast on the caveats of this theoretical framework, as well as on the alternative modeling approaches.