This course outline describes Econ-425: Applied Macroeconomics being offered in the fall 2015 semester. The course will broadly cover macroeconomic models and applied macroeconometrics, including topics like business cycles, growth theories, and fiscal and monetary policies. Students will learn to use macroeconomic models to study the effects of public policy and work with national accounting data. The goals are to expose students to modern empirical macroeconomic research, enhance their ability to analyze economic time series data, provide an understanding of how econometrics can be applied to the economy, and address interesting policy questions. Students will be graded based on quizzes, assignments, a term paper, and a final exam.
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Course outline for Applied Macroeconomics for LUMS
This course outline describes Econ-425: Applied Macroeconomics being offered in the fall 2015 semester. The course will broadly cover macroeconomic models and applied macroeconometrics, including topics like business cycles, growth theories, and fiscal and monetary policies. Students will learn to use macroeconomic models to study the effects of public policy and work with national accounting data. The goals are to expose students to modern empirical macroeconomic research, enhance their ability to analyze economic time series data, provide an understanding of how econometrics can be applied to the economy, and address interesting policy questions. Students will be graded based on quizzes, assignments, a term paper, and a final exam.
This course outline describes Econ-425: Applied Macroeconomics being offered in the fall 2015 semester. The course will broadly cover macroeconomic models and applied macroeconometrics, including topics like business cycles, growth theories, and fiscal and monetary policies. Students will learn to use macroeconomic models to study the effects of public policy and work with national accounting data. The goals are to expose students to modern empirical macroeconomic research, enhance their ability to analyze economic time series data, provide an understanding of how econometrics can be applied to the economy, and address interesting policy questions. Students will be graded based on quizzes, assignments, a term paper, and a final exam.
Fall 2015 Instructor: Kashif Zaheer Malik COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will broadly cover two dimensions. One is the understanding of macroeconomic models. The second is the applied macro-econometrics. The course will cover some of the topics in macroeconomics such business cycles, growth theories, fiscal and monetary policies. The course will use macro models to study the effects of public policy. It will also cover some basic tools and procedures to work with national accounting data. GOALS Expose students to the modern empirical macroeconomics research Enhance students' capability to analyze economic (macroeconomics) time series data.
Provide a solid understanding how econometric methods can be applied to
enhance understanding of the economy. Address Interesting economics policy questions.
Grading Quizzes (3) Assignments Term Paper Final Exam