Martin Flodén: Teaching

Intermediate Macroeconomics

• EC2211 Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Undergraduate
• I teach the fall-semester version of this course
• Contents (Fall 2025):
  • Measuring the macroeconomy
  • Economic growth and the Solow model
  • More growth: human capital, finite natural resources, Malthus
  • TFP and long-term growth: the Romer model
  • Labor supply and unemployment
  • Consumption and investment
  • The short run: IS-MP and the Phillips curve
  • The short run: AS-AD, the Taylor rule, the time-inconsistency problem
  • Money and monetary policy
  • Government debt and fiscal policy
  • Exchange rates and international finance
  • Open economy macroeconomics and the international monetary system

Master’s course in macroeconomics

• EC7210 Macroeconomics
• Compulsory first-semester course in the Master’s program
• The listed textbook for the course is David Romer’s “Advanced Macroeconomics” but it is mostly used as background reading
• I provide detailed lecture notes for all theoretical material covered
• Contents (Fall 2025):
  • Consumption theory
  • The neoclassical growth model
  • The overlapping generations model
  • The real business cycle model
  • The new keynesian business cycle model
  • Monetary policy rules and the transmission of monetary policy
  • Topics in monetary policy
  • Public debt and fiscal policy