Semester	Spring Semester, 2025
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

The Facts of Growth

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Output

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

3.0

4.5

編輯

Technological Progress and Growth

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

The Challenges of Growth

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Growth empirics

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Financial Markets and Expectations

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Expectations, Consumption, and Investment

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Expectations, Output, and Policy

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Mid-term Exam

Corresponding chapters

written exam

3.0

4.5

編輯

Openness in Goods and Financial Markets

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

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

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

Exchange Rate Regimes

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up to Policy

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Monetary Policy: A Summing Up

Review on the methodology

編輯

Self-study and exam Preparation

see suggested text book's corresponding chapters

lectures, class discussion & TA session

3.0

4.5

編輯

Final exam

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

Two graduate students will be assigned as the TA for the course and provide reqular TA session every week.

Requirement/Grading

nNo prerequisite is required for the course.

nThere will be quizzes, mid-term and final exams. Several problem sets will also be assigned during the term at TA session.

nSemester grades are determined by problem sets and quizzes (40%), the midterm (25%), and the final (35%).

nExtra bonus for creative class discussion and in-class article presentation.

nA corresponding penalty for skipping classes.

Textbook & Reference

1. Macroeconomics, 13 th Edition by Dornbusch & Fischer & Startz (2018)* Required.

2. Macroeconomics, Olivier Blanchard, 8th ed., Pearson Education, 2021.

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

WM5 & Moodle E-learning websites

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