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12676
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(60H)
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| Scientific area |
Economics
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Entry requirements |
None.
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Mode of delivery |
Daytime and Presential
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Work placements |
Does not apply
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Learning outcomes |
The curricular unit is designed to provide future graduates in Management with a set of theoretical and practical knowledge, and enable them to
understand the macroeconomic environment in which business decisions are taken.
Upon completion of the Curricular Unit students should be able to: understand the main macroeconomic issues; distinguish key macroeconomic aggregates; understand the behaviour determinants of the real and monetary economy in the long run, in what regards its essential aspects (output, employment, prices); differentiate the behaviour of an open economy from that of a closed economy; understand the determinants of the real economy in the short run.
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Syllabus |
Chapter I: Introduction
1.1 Principles of Economics
1.2 Thinking like an Economist
Chapter II: Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
Chapter III: The Data in Macroeconomics
3.1 The Performance of a Country
3.2 The Cost of Living
Chapter IV: The Real Economy in the Long Run
4.1 Production and Economic Growth
4.2 Saving, Investment and Financial System
4.3 Unemployment
Chapter V: Money and Prices in the Long Run
5.1 Monetary Growth and Inflation
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Main Bibliography |
Mankiw, N. Gregory (2018), Principles of Economics, 8th edition, Cengage Learning
César das Neves, João (2011), Introdução à Economia, 9ª Edição, Verbo
Sequeira, Tiago N. (2007), Sebenta de Exercícios de Macroeconomia I, UBI, Covilhã
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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