ECON 231 Applied Macro
Formerly ECON 443. The objectives of this course are threefold: 1) Survey the current state of the U.S. economy and interpret the flood of economic information provided by the news media, government and private sources; 2) Analyze the linkages between macroeconomic performance and the return on the financial market; 3) Work with a simple U.S. macro-econometric model to forecast U.S. macroeconomic variables such as GDP, unemployment, inflation and do policy analysis. Also see Enrollment Requirements.