Macroeconomics

Mau-Ting Lin

2018-06-19

Introduction

• Teacher：Lin, Mau-Ting 林茂廷
• Office：Social Science Building 3F01
• Office hours: 2-4pm on Tuesday
• TEL：02﹣86741111 ext 67170
• Email：mtlin@gm.ntpu.edu.tw
• Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/groups/ntpumacroeconomics/
• Github: https://github.com/tpemartin/Macroeconomics

Course Materials

Textbook

1. Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach, Robert J. Barro, Cengage Learning, 2008. (華泰書局代理）

Other reference

2. plotly for R, gitbook.com
   
3. The Economist magazine.
   
4. 總體經濟學，吳聰敏，翰蘆圖書，2000.
   
5. 總體經濟學：古典新論（一），毛慶生，雙葉書廊，2014.

The theory contents will follow 1 closely. Item 2 is for data visualization. And item 3 is for general discussion regarding world news.

Video Material

https://goo.gl/kbQwP5

Assessment

• Class participation and quizzes: 10%

• Midterm Exam: 30%

• Final Exam: 30%

• Homework: 30%
  
• Class discussion notes (hand in every week)
  

• Others

Software installation

1. R
   http://www.r-project.org/

2. RStudio
   http://rstudio.org/

3. Github desktop
   https://desktop.github.com/

4. Atom (Optional)
   https://github.com/atom
   • install the following packages after Atom installation:
     markdown-preview-plus, markdown-pdf and markdown-preview-plus-opener
     
   • disable markdown-preview