he course offers the analytical and measurement tools necessary in order to describe and characterize the macroeconomic performance of a market economy, such as: GDP, growth rate, industrial production, unemployment rate, inflativo rate, trade balance, spread, public debt. After the introductory part on definition and measurement of macroeconomic aggregates, the course will focus on the analysis of economic models useful to understand the determinants of the macroeconomic performance, both in the long run and in the short run, with reference to economic growth, structural unemployment and inflation, in the first case, and to business cycle, and cyclical unemployment.