Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Macroeconomics
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
MAC601067
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
This course aims to provide students with an advanced understanding of macroeconomic theory and its applications in analyzing aggregate economic performance, policy design, and long-term growth. It develops analytical and critical thinking skills through the study of national income determination, consumption and investment behavior, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, unemployment, and open-economy dynamics. The course also equips students with theoretical and quantitative tools to evaluate macroeconomic stabilization policies and understand contemporary economic issues in a global context.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
Macroeconomics studies the economy in the manner of overall. Thus, the aggregated variables and average index play an important role in the analyses. This course clarifies the influencing factors and the relationship between aggregated variables and average index such as output, price index, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate through indicators in the macroeconomic model.
Moreover, this course emphasizes the role of financial markets including aspects of asset prices, securitization, financial leverage, causes and effects of financial crises through theoretical models. This helps learners better understand the economic situation and be able to analyze macroeconomic policy.