Course Contents
1. The Business Cycle
• Assessing macro performance
• GDP growth
• Unemployment
• Inflation
2. Aggregate supply and demand
• A macro view
• Stable or unstable
• The aggregate supply
• Demand model
• Macro failure
• Completing theories of short run instability
• policy options
3. Fiscal policy
• Components of aggregate demand
• The nature of fiscal policy
• Fiscal stimulus and fiscal restraint
4. Money and banks
• The uses of money
• The money supply
• Creation of money
• The money multiplier
• The macro role of banks
5. Monetary policy
• Monetary tools
• Shifting aggregate demand
• Price vs output effects
6. Economic growth
• The nature of growth
• Growth indexes
• Sources of productivity growth
• Policy levers
7. International trade
• Motivation to trade
• Comparative advantage
• Terms of trade
• Protectionist pressures
• Barriers to trade
• Exchange rates
Course Synopsis
The objectives of this course are
• To develop a good understanding of functioning of the macro economy.
• To enable the students for the decomposed analysis of major sector of the economy and facilitate them for further research on macro economic
problems for the development of the economy.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student will be enabling to analyze the functioning of the macro economy.
Student will be capable to critically evaluate the macro economic policies in major sectors of economy.
Student will be competent for further higher research oriented studies
Essentials of Economics By Bradley R. Schiller (10th edition)
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The Business Cycle: Assessing macro performance, GDP growth, Unemployment, Inflation
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The Business Cycle: Assessing macro performance, GDP growth, Unemployment, Inflation Continued
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Aggregate supply and demand: A macro view, Stable or unstable, The aggregate supply Demand model, Macro failure, Completing theories of short run instability policy options
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Aggregate supply and demand: A macro view, Stable or unstable, The aggregate supply Demand model, Macro failure, Completing theories of short run instability policy options Continued
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Aggregate supply and demand: A macro view, Stable or unstable, The aggregate supply Demand model, Macro failure, Completing theories of short run instability policy options Continued
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Aggregate supply and demand: A macro view, Stable or unstable, The aggregate supply Demand model, Macro failure, Completing theories of short run instability policy options
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Fiscal policy: Components of aggregate demand , The nature of fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus and fiscal restraint
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Fiscal policy: Components of aggregate demand , The nature of fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus and fiscal restraint Continued
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Money and banks: The uses of money, The money supply, Creation of money, The money multiplier , The macro role of banks
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Fiscal policy: Components of aggregate demand , The nature of fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus and fiscal restraint Continued
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Monetary policy: Monetary tools. Shifting aggregate demand, Price vs output effects
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy
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Monetary policy: Monetary tools. Shifting aggregate demand, Price vs output effects Continued
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Continued
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Economic growth: The nature of growth, Growth indexes, Sources of productivity growth, Policy levers
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International trade: Motivation to trade, Comparative advantage, Terms of trade
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International trade: Motivation to trade, Comparative advantage, Terms of trade Continued
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Protectionist pressures, Barriers to trade
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Exchange rates
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