Macroeconomic Analysis for Decision-Making

This course aims to provide the participants with an overview of the macroeconomic analysis for decision-making in public, investment, and business policies. This is made with the support of analysis in theories, models, and economic data through specific case studies. The course gives the necessary tools so participants can analyse the determinants of a country’s economic growth and how that influences the economic perspectives. This is done mainly through a basic analysis of the national accounting and the study of consumption and investment theories. At the same time, basic concepts of macroeconomic policy are presented. Firstly, the fiscal policy is studied for the application of case studies about fiscal adjustments and how that influences the sustainability of government debts. After that, the monetary policy is analyzed under inflation targeting schemes and how that policy influences the decision-making of investment, public, and business policies.

General Objective

To study the main models related to the macroeconomic conceptual framework for decision-making in the business, investment, and public policy sectors. This is made through numerical analysis and macroeconomic empirical evidence, applying it in certain countries’ case studies.