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University of Toronto Mississauga

ECO208Y5

Macroeconomic Theory

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Credit1
InstructorG. Kambourov
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours48 lecture · 24 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 1 papers
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ECO208Y5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
%

You need 66.7% across the remaining 120% to finish at 80%.

Your weights total 120%, not 100% — the answer assumes the rows above are the whole course.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

40% final

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 5 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course provides a rigorous discussion of models used in the study of macroeconomic phenomena, including business cycles, economic growth, inflation, and international trade.

Exclusions
ECO202Y1ECO202Y5ECO208Y1ECO209Y1ECO209Y5
Contact hours
48 lecture · 24 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

ECO101H5 and ECO102H5 and MAT133Y5 and MAT135H5 and MAT136H5 and MAT137Y5 and MAT137H5 and MAT139H5

Where the marks come from

Fall 2026 syllabus
Final Exam · 40%Term Test 1 · 20%Term Test 2 · 20%Term Test 3 · 20%Term Test 4 · 20%

40% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.

Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

  • lowest 1 midterm(s) dropped

How well we know this course

2023–2024

Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for ECO208Y5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2024.

1
Final exams
1
Syllabi

Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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ClaimSourceCapturedStatus
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
2 archived documents, 2023-2024Pyko archive2026-07-25index only
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: G. Kambourov)Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05official syllabus

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

What this opens up

11 courses list ECO208Y5 as a prerequisite

The other 7 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names ECO208Y5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what ECO208Y5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

Around this course

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