MACROECONOMICS I (FMA10)


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Basic Information

  • Code: FMA10
  • Location: Helsinki, Economicum building
  • Time: May 24- June 9, 2010
  • Application form
    • Deadline for applications: May 7, 2010
    • Doctoral students not enrolled in FDPE, including students in foreign universities, are able to attend individual courses. See How to Apply for the FDPE courses.
  • List of participants (PDF)
  • The course includes 30 hours of lectures and exercises and an exam.
  • FDPE recommends that the course is acknowledged by the student's own university/department with 4 ECTS credit points.
  • Course description: The aim of the course is to provide a solid overview of recursive methods and familiarize students with their use in macroeconomics. The course focuses mainly on discrete time dynamic programming and its economic applications. A brief sketch on continuous time optimization models will be given. The course covers numerical methods for solving dynamic optimization problems.
  • Course outline and reading list (PDF)

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Instructors

  • Professor Mitri Kitti (Aalto University School of Economics)

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Course material

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Assignments

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Course requirements

  • Final grade consists of exam and exercise points. Exercises are not mandatory for passing the course but the exercise points determine 25 % of the final grade.

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Exam

  • Time: June 21, 2010 , 10 a.m.-14 p.m.
  • Places:
    • AT THE PARTICIPANTS' OWN DEPARTMENTS
    • but in Helsinki only at the Economicum building
  • Please register for the exam by sending an e-mail to fdpe-hecer(at)helsinki.fi (and let us know where you want to take the exam).

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Travel Grants

  • The Society for economics professors and docents in Finland (Kansantaloustieteen professorien ja dosenttien yhdistys ry) gives travel grants to doctoral economics students, please see FDPE website Financial Aid.

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