ECON 202BMacroeconomics: Business Cycles

Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Survey of representative agent and complete market models of short-run fluctuations. Facts about fluctuations and long-term growth. Real business cycle theory. Calibrating and simulating dynamic models. Asset prices, money, and inflation. Taxation of factor incomes. Cyclical aspects of employment.

S/U or letter grading.

When it runs

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

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Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 202B

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.