香港大學 Macroeconomics Lecture Notes (all chapters based on Macroeconomics,.Andrew.B..Abel,.Ben.S..Bernanke,.Dean.Croushore,.7ed,.AW,.2011)
Basic ingredients of macroeconomic theory (3 weeks)
a. labor market equilibrium and full-employment output chapter 3
b. consumption, saving, and investment chapter 4
c. the asset market, money and prices chapter 7
3. Business cycles (4-5 weeks)
a. business cycle facts chapter 8
b. the IS-LM/AD-AS model chapter 9
c. classical business cycle theory chapter 10
d. Keynesian business cycle theory chapter 11
4. Macroeconomic Policy (2-3 weeks)
a. inflation-unemployment tradeoff chapter 12
b. fractional reserve banking and monetary policy chapter 14
c. rules versus discretion in monetary policy chapter 14
5. Long-run economic growth (2 weeks)
a. the Solow growth model and its implications chapter 6