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7196-HS2025-0-Macroeconomics II





Root number 7196
Semester HS2025
Type of course Lecture
Allocation to subject Economics
Type of exam Assignment
Title Macroeconomics II
Description *** IMPORTANT ***
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This course introduces Master students to modern macroeconomic theory. Building on the analysis of the consumption-savings tradeoff in dynamic economies and on concepts from general equilibrium theory, the course covers workhorse general equilibrium models of modern macroeconomics: the representative agent framework, the overlapping generations model, and the Lucas tree model.
Readings: The course follows the lecturer’s textbook "Macroeconomic Analysis”, MIT Press, 2019.

Language: English
Credits: 3 SWS / 4.5 ECTS
Prerequisites: Macroeconomics I, Microeconomics I, good understanding of constrained optimization
Evaluation: Closed-book written final exam, in English
Compulsory, fall term


Lecture (Mondays): 10.15-12.00h, tba
Exercises with Teaching Assistant Noah Köhli
(bi-weekly), tba

1st exam: Monday, December 15, 2025 10:15 - 12.00 hrs, 105 min, tba
2nd exam: Monday, February 09, 2026, 10.15-12.00 hrs, 105 min, tba

Exams have to be taken in presence at the University of Bern
ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course) No registration/deregistration in CTS (Admission in ILIAS possible). ILIAS
Link to another web site
Lecturers Prof. Dr. Dirk Niepelt, Department of Economics ✉
ECTS 4.5
Recognition as optional course possible No
Grading 1 to 6
 
Dates Monday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
Thursday 12:15-14:00 Fortnightly
Thursday 23/10/2025 12:15-14:00
Thursday 4/12/2025 12:15-14:00
Monday 9/2/2026 10:15-12:00
 
Rooms
 
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