NA_MaE Macroeconomics

Vysoká škola finanční a správní
léto 2025
Rozsah
2/1/0. 16 hodin KS/semestr. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Garance
doc. Ing. Jan Mertl, Ph.D.
Katedra ekonomie a managementu (FES, KEM) – Katedry – Vysoká škola finanční a správní
Kontaktní osoba: Bc. Kateřina Konupková
Předpoklady
Completed N_MiE.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu
The aim of the course is to explain inter-mediate macroeconomic concepts of both neoclassical and Keynesian approaches, that is to explain relationships among macroeconomic variables in the long run and in the short run.
Výstupy z učení
Students will understand intermediate macroeconomic concepts for the long run and for the short run, including the quantity theory of money, IS-LM model, demand for money and Phillips curve.
Osnova
  • 1. The costs of inflation and deflation. Effects on creditors, debtors and purchasing power. Hyperinflation.
  • 2. Long-run economic growth. Exogenous and endogenous growth.
  • 3. Theory of money and demand for money. The quantitative theory of money.
  • 4. Theories of the business cycle. Determinants of aggregate expenditure. AS-AD model.
  • 5. Short-run aggregate supply. Causes of nominal rigidities.
  • 6. IS-LM model. Macroeconomic equilibrium in the short run.
  • 7. Phillips curve. Macroeconomic analysis in short and long run.
  • 8. Fiscal policy. The crowding-out effect. Time lags.
  • 9. Monetary policy. Time lags.
  • 10. Exchange rate theories. The balance of payments.
  • 11. Mundell-Fleming model. Monetary unions. Optimum currency area theory.
  • 12. Foreign Trade. Barriers and sanctions. Economic integration and disintegration.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • MACH, Petr: Textbook of intermediate economics. Available in "study materials" in IS
    doporučená literatura
  • MACH, Petr. Textbook of Elementary Economics. Prague: VŠFS, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7408-193-4. info
    neurčeno
  • Sobel, R., Gwartney, J., Stroup, R., Macpherson, D.: Understanding Macroeconomics. 13th international ed. Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2011, ISBN 978-0-538-75620-4
  • MANKIW, G.: Macroeconomics. 7th edition. Worth publishers. New York 2010. ISBN 978-1-4292-1887-0
Výukové metody
Lectures and seminars on the full-time form of the study, and consultations on the combined form of the study.
Students should attend at least 75% of the seminars in the present form and at least 50%. Students on an individual study plan are not obliged to meet the condition of attendance.
The prerequisite of the study is knowledge the economics at the bachelor's level. The students without such knowledge are advised to learn from the book MACH, P.: Textbook of elementary Economics.
Metody hodnocení
The course is completed by credit and exam. Getting credit is a prerequisite for registration for the exam.
The student gains credit upon meeting these conditions:
1. Meeting attendance requirements
2. Passing the midterm credit test and the final credit test
with more than half correct answers
Tests are online in the IS
The exam is oral. The examiners will ask students about the key concepts published in the exam topics.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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