Syllabus: Macroeconomics I

Autumn 2025

Instructor: Hui-Jun Chen

Last Update: September 7, 2025

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Course Overview

Course website:
- Materials: Webpage
Meeting Time: Thursday 10:10 - 13:00 (R34n)
Location: TSMC Building 224
Office: TSMC Building 729-B
Email address: huijunchen@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Please do not hesitate to email me and set an appointment outside of regular office hour. To get quicker email reply, I would prefer you to:
1. Use [Macro] at the beginning of your subject title.
  - example title: [Macro] Question regarding Extra credit
I will reply your email within 2 business day.
Office hour: By appointment
Teaching Assistant:
1. 陳建廷(email: ericchen904230331@gmail.com)
2. 曾子齊(email: freeboard2001@gmail.com)
TA Office hour: TBA

Grades


Categories	Points


Problem sets on course material	20 points

Midterm Exam I	20 points

Midterm Exam II	20 points

Final Exam	30 points

Attendance	10 points

Total	100 points

See course schedule, below, for due dates

Grading Policy

Examinations Integrity Policies

Problem Sets: Discussions are encouraged, but each person must hand in their own answer sheets

Examinations: Discussions are forbidden, either face to face or via online discussion board / Social media.

Curving

If less than $40 %$ of the students get A- or above, I will add some points to everybody until $40 %$ of the students get A- or above, but I don’t expect this to occur.

Problem Sets

There are four problem sets and each of them worth 5 points. The way to calculate semester grade on problem set is by $\frac{correct answers}{total number of questions} \times 5$ . For example, if there are 36 questions and you answer 30 correctly, then you will get $\frac{30}{36} \times 5 \approx 4.16$ points in semester grade.

Problem sets will be answered on paper, and will be submitted by the class time to TA.

Note that overdue assignment will NOT be accepted.

Exam

There are two midterm exams and each of them worth 20 points. There is one final exam and it worths 30 points. The way to calculate semester grade on exams is the similar to the Problem Sets if not otherwise noted.

Attendance

If there are more than $50 %$ of students attend the class, then I will not take attendance. If I have not taken attendance until the end of semester, then every students will be granted the entirety of the attendance points. If I start to take attendance, then I will spread $5$ to $10$ attendance check across the rest of the semester, and the attendance points will be recorded accordingly.

Tentative Course Schedule


Week	Day	Topics and Readings	Deadlines


1	9/4	Topic: Introduction Topic: Measurement I

2	9/11	Topic: Measurement II Topic: Consumer Preference I

3	9/18	Topic: Consumer Preference II Topic: Examples	Problem Set 1

4	9/25	Topic: Firms Topic: Competitive Equilibrium

5	10/2	Topic: Social Planer’s Problem Topic: Examples	Problem Set 2

6	10/9	Midterm I

7	10/16	Midterm Recap Topic: Distorting Taxes

8	10/23	Topic: Two Period Consumer Problem Topic: Two Period Equilibrium

9	10/30	Topic: RBC Model Part 1: Consumer Topic: RBC Model Part 2: Firm	Problem Set 3

10	11/06	Topic: RBC Model Part 3: Competitive Equilibrium Topic: RBC Model Part 4: Examples

11	11/13	Topic: RBC Model Part 5: Applications Topic: Solow Model and Dynamic Programming	Problem Set 4

12	11/20	Midterm II

13	11/27	Topic: Asset Pricing: Endowment Economy Topic: Asset Pricing: Production Economy

14	12/04	Customized Class

15	12/11	Customized Class Final Review

16	12/18	Final Exam

Grading scale

See https://registra.site.nthu.edu.tw/var/file/211/1211/img/609/grade-plan.pdf for NTHU definition.