| Course Description: | Examines the range of macroeconomic activities undertaken by national governments around the world, and identifies the role of a diverse array of macroeconomic policymaking and planning tools and techniques for use in formulating and evaluating macroeconomic policies. Topics include the macroeconomic functions of government, alternative macroeconomic policies and policy tools, the theory of economic policy, macroeconomic accounting and databases, econometric models of national economies, policy simulation models, forecasting and projection models, input-output models, general equilibrium models, and national economic growth models including the new growth models and empirical applications. |