Semester	Spring Semester, 2018
Department	Integrated Curriculum by Dept. of Economics
Course Name	Macroeconomics
Instructor	CHUANG YIH-CHYI
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Required
Prerequisite	Intermediate Macroecon Theory、Intermediate Macroeconomics、Intro to Macroecnomics、Macro Economic Theory、Macro Economics、Macroecnomics、Macroeconomic Theory、Macroeconomics、Macro-Economics、Principle of Macroeconomics、Principles of Macroeconomics

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

週次	課程主題	課程內容與指定閱讀	教學活動與作業	學習投入時數		動作
				課堂講授	課程前後
1	The Facts of Growth	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
2	Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Output	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters		3.0	4.5		編輯
3	Technological Progress and Growth	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
4	Technological Progress: The Short, the Medium, and the Long Runs	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
5	Growth empirircs	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
6	Financial Markets and Expectations	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
7	Expectations, Consumption, and Investment	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
8	Expectations, Output, and Policy	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
9	Mid-term exam	Corresponding chapters	written exam	3.0	4.5		編輯
10	Openness in Goods and Financial Markets	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
11	The Goods Market in an Open Economy	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
12	18. Output, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
13	19. Exchange Rate Regimes	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
14	Back to Policy	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
15	Should Policy Makers Be Restrained?	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
16	Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
17	Monetary Policy: A Summing Up	see suggested text book's corresponding chapters	lectures, class discussion & TA session	3.0	4.5		編輯
18	Final Exam	Chapters after mid-term exam	written exam	3.0	4.5		編輯
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Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

Requirement/Grading

nNo prerequisite is required for the course.

nThere will be midterm and final exams. A number of problem sets will also be assigned during the term.

nSemester grades are determined by problem sets and quizzes (30%), the midterm (35%), and the final (35%).

nExtra bonus for creative class discussion and corresponding penalty for skipping classes.

Textbook & Reference

1. Macroeconomics, Olivier Blanchard, 7th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2017.

Supplementary books:

1. Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach, Robert Barro, 2008.

2. Macroeconomics, Robert Hall and David Rapell, 6th ed., Norton, 2005.

3. Macroeconomics, Gregory Mankiew, 3th ed., Worth, 2002.

4. Macroeconomics, Robert Gordon, 9th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2003.

Urls about Course

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