EVSNAMAE Macroeconomic Analysis

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Pavel Tuleja, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Pavel Tuleja, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová
Prerequisites
The completion of the course does not require any conditions and students can enrol for the course independently of other subjects.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Banking (programme OPF, N_HOSPOL)
Course objectives
The course aims to familiarize the students with objectives of macroeconomic analysis. The student will be gradually acquainted with the basic concepts and context of selected macroeconomic phenomena. Lectures will be devoted to the basics of economic modelling, issue of external and internal equilibrium and to the issue associated with the creation of conjunctural analysis. Lecturers will lead the students to understand the basic methods and procedures of macroeconomic analysis in the extent that allows them to work properly with the commonly available economic data.
Syllabus
  • 1. Economic model and macroeconomic analysis
    2. Population and demographic trends
    3. Production
    4. Gross domestic product and the economic growth
    5. Aggregate Demand
    6. Aggregate Supply
    7. Price stability
    8. Labour market and employment
    9. External economic balance
    10. Competitiveness of the economy and the possibility of its measuring
    11. Fiscal policy and internal indebtedness
    12. Monetary policy and monetary developments
    13. Conjunctural analysis and conjunctural indicators
Literature
    required literature
  • IMF. IMF staff papers. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. info
  • The Kyoto economic review. Kyoto, Japan : Office of Advanced Economic Analy. info
  • MJOSET, L., CLAUSEN, T. H. Capitalisms Compared. Amsterdam, Oxford: Elsevier JAI, 2007. ISBN 978-1-849-50414-0. info
  • ALTUG, S., CHADHA, J. S., NOLAN, CH. Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory And Policy In General Equilibirum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-82668-3. info
  • GRAYSON, L. E., BODILY, S. E. Integration into the world economy: companies in transition in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Laxenburg : International Institute for Applied, 1996. ISBN 3-7045-0130-1. info
    recommended literature
  • Advances in economic analysis & policy. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Electronic Press. info
  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Eurostatistics, data for short-term economic analysis. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of. info
  • OECD. Quarterly National Accounts. Paris: OECD. info
Teaching methods
Skills demonstration
Assessment methods
Credit
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Course credit test.
Additional tasks: research and study of the literature related to the macroeconomics analysis.

ActivityDifficulty [h]
Ostatní studijní zátěž60
Přednáška26
Zápočet30
Summary116
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2015, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2016, recent)
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