During the course, students are familiarized with the nature and complexity of such macroeconomic issues as measuring economic performance, monitoring the economy, the role of monetary and exchange rate system, macroeconomic equilibrium, business cycles as well as of the possibilities and limits of governments and their economic and fiscal policy.
Kursuse käigus tutvustatakse üliõpilastele järgnevate makroökonoomika alateemade sisu ning keerukust: rahvamajanduse arvepidamine, majanduse monitooring, raha- ja valuutasüsteemi roll, makromajanduse tasakaal, majanduse tsüklilisus ning valitsuse majandus- ja eelarvepoliitika võimalused ning piirid.