Max Sties
Contact
ATS Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Arts - Economics Dept
- sties@ualberta.ca
Courses
ECON 102 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
Employment, inflation, international payments, monetary policy, and fiscal policy, all in the Canadian economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or consent of Department. Not open to students with credit in ECON 204.
ECON 282 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory I
Models of price, interest rate, output, and employment determination; the impact of fiscal, monetary, and supply shocks; open economy macroeconomics with fixed and flexible exchange rates, and prices as well as international capital mobility. Prerequisite: ECON 101 and 102 or consent of Department.
ECON 385 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II
Designed for majors and Honors students in Economics. Theories of stabilization policy; expectations; the government budget constraint; inflation and unemployment; business cycles and growth; theories of aggregate consumption, investment, money demand, and money supply. Prerequisites: ECON 281, 282 and 299 or equivalent, and MATH 156 or equivalent.
ECON 485 - Macroeconomic Policy
Analysis of the objectives, instruments and methods of macroeconomics policy using contemporary macroeconomics theory and examples from the policy experience of Canada and other nations. Prerequisite: ECON 385.
ECON 494 - Economic Data Analysis I
Computer programming for the statistical analysis and econometric modelling of data in economics. The statistical programs introduced and used in the course include SAS, R, Python or similar computer programming languages. Prerequisites: ECON 299 or equivalent.
ECON 594 - Economic Data Analysis II
Computer programming for the statistical analysis and econometric modelling of data in economics. The statistical programs introduced and used in the course include SAS, R, Python or similar computer programming languages.