Czech

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After finishing the course students should be able to understand theoretical basis and principles of economics, in context of contemporary problems.

The knowledge of Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and Econometrics is expected.

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The course is a combination of the lectures and self-study. Lectures consist of an explanation of basic principles, methodology of the discipline, problems and their solutions.

Form of examination – written examination.
The scale of the resulting classification:
A: 90-100 points
B: 80-89 points
C: 70-79 points
D: 60-69 points
E: 50-59 points
F: less than 50 points

Content:
The economy of the main stream
The money market, quantitative theory - neutrality of money
The theory of value, price, utility and costs, the marginal theory
The theory of capital, interest rates, savings, investment and investment multiplier
The international division of labour, theory of international trade, balance of payment, exchange rates theory and external equilibrium
The economic equilibrium, models AS–AD, IS–LM, Modigliani’s model, Mundell-Fleming’s model
The labour market, natural rate of unemployment, Phillips curve theories
The theory of business cycle, real and monetary cycles
The economics growth and the models of economics growth (Solow’s model of the economic growth, Cob-Douglas’s production function, theory of the endogenous growth)
Business policy, the business policy failures, reasons and solutions of the economics recessions
The theory of human capital, economics in relation to political and sociological questions

Syllabus of tutorials:
Introduction to the course, repeating the elementary macroeconomic knowledge
Quantity theory of money
Value theory, international trade
Market for loanable funds, money market, external equilibrum state
Exchange Rates
Model IS-LM

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The main objective of the course is enlargement of macroeconomic knowledge and intensifying of students' abilities in understanding and solving of actual economics problems.

Control of students' attendance and results is fully in competence of the teacher.

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HOLMAN, R. Makroekonomie – středně pokročilý kurz. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2004. 424 s. ISBN 80-7179-764-2.

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