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CEC

Intermediate Macroeconomics-II

CEC via Swayam

Overview

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Rationale for developing this Course: Macroeconomics or aggregate economics analyses and establishes the functional relationship between the large aggregates. The aggregate analysis has assumed such a great significance in recent times that a prior understanding of macroeconomic theoretical structure is considered essential for the proper comprehension of the different issues and policies. Macroeconomics is not only a scientific method of analysis but also a body of empirical economic knowledge.Course Description: The Course equips the students to understand systematic facts and latest theoretical developments for empirical analysis.Course Objectives: This course helps in understanding the basic concepts and policies of macroeconomics.The course helps the students in establishing link between macroeconomic theory and its application.It prepares the students towards analyzing macroeconomic situations given different policy scenarios and models.Learning Outcomes: Ability to understand the different macroeconomic growth and development models.Ability to understand the different concepts and theories of Macroeconomics.Ability to understand Classical Macroeconomic Model.Ability to analyse policy implications of various macroeconomic models.

Syllabus

Week

Title of Video and Reading text/Lecture/ppt

First Week

Economic growth models – Harrod model

Domar growth model

Solow model

Solowian convergence

Second Week

Golden rule of accumulation

Steady state-properties

Endogeneous growth model by AK Sen

Endogeneous growth model by Romar

Third Week

Policy implications of Endogeneous growth models

Classical Macroeconomics – Assumptions

Say’s law of markets

Classical theory of employment

Fourth Week

Wage-cut policy

Keynesian theory of employment – the principle of effective demand, aggregate demand and aggregate supply

Consumption function- concepts-APC, MPC, APS, MPS

Keynesian psychological law of consumption and its implications

Fifth Week

Determinants of consumption function

Theories of consumption function – absolute income hypothesis

The consumption puzzle

Drift theory of consumption

Sixth Week

Relative income hypothesis

Life cycle hypothesis

Permanent income hypothesis

Random walk hypothesis

Seventh Week

Fisher’s theory of optimal inter-temporal choice

Investment –different types –business fixed, residential and inventory investment

Autonomous and induced investment, MEC, investment multiplier

Accelerator principle and super multiplier

Eighth Week

New theories of investment – accelerator theory, flexible accelerator theory, Tobin’s Q theory, Financial theory of investment

Demand for money- classical approach (quantity theory of money- cash transactions approach)

Quantity theory of money- cash balance approach

The Keynesian approach (liquidity preference theory )

Ninth Week

Keynesian liquidity trap

Post Keynesian approaches to demand for money- A) Baumol’s inventory theoretic approach

B) Tobin’s portfolio selection model

Monetary policy-meaning and objectives or goals

Tenth Week

Instruments of monetary policy

Expansionary monetary policy and restrictive monetary policy

Rules versus discretion in monetary policy

Fiscal policy- meaning and objectives or goals

Eleventh Week

Instruments of fiscal policy

Automatic and discretionary stabilizers

Crowding out and fiscal policy

Lags in effects of macroeconomic policies

Twelfth

Week

Time consistency in monetary policy

Problem of coordination of macroeconomic policy objectives – the assignment problem (Mundell and Swan model )

Public debt-macroeconomic impact

The government budget constraint

Thirteenth Week

The principle of Ricardian equivalence

Classicals versus Keynesians

Phillips curve analysis

Adaptive expectations and stagflation

Fourteenth Week

New classical macroeconomics –rational expectations

Policy implications of New classical macroeconomics

New Keynesian Economics – difference between new classical and new Keynesians

Sticky nominal wages – staggered wage contracts theory

Sticky prices model - Sticky real wages

Taught by

Dr. Navitha Thimmaiah

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