ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1 Course Outline Semester 2‚ 2013 Part A: Course-Specific Information Students are also expected to have read and be familiar with Part B Supplement to All Course Outlines. This contains Policies on Student Responsibilities and Support‚ Including Special Consideration‚ Plagiarism and Key Dates. It also contains the ASB PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS. Table of Contents 1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 1.1 Communications with
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country and analyze its macro economy in depth the 16/01/2013 The country of choice is Brazil for the following reasons: it is a booming economy‚ which provides some stark contrast with the stagnation and ever-mentioned phrase ‘double-dip recession’ which now commonly used in the West. Macroeconomics is concerned with the study of aggregate economy‚ which embodies all nationally relevant economic indicators. The common indicators are the unemployment rate‚ the rate of inflation‚ the GDP per capita
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of a direct signal would be the unemployment rate since it measures the percent of labor force that is unemployed. Indirect signals come from watching the movement of causally related indicators‚ and drawing conclusions about one from the movement of the other. For example‚ if lenders feel that inflation is going to rise in the future (i.e. inflationary expectations rise) then they will require borrowers to pay a premium‚ and thus‚ a higher interest rate as compensation for the expected decline in
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more efficiently and at a lower cost than it can produce other items. South Africa has an absolute advantage because of its diamonds. The United States has a comparative advantage because of the many products we produce. 3. What effect does devaluation have on a nation’s currency? Can you think of a country that has devaluated or revaluated its currency? What have been the results?Devaluation decreases the value of currency in relation to other currencies. Mexico is a country that has devalued their
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Macroeconomic Forecast Outline Macroeconomics is‚ "the part of economics concerned with the economy as a whole; with such major aggregates as the household‚ business‚ and government sectors; and with measures of the total economy" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.13). "Two of the most critical questions in macroeconomics are: (1) What determines the level of GDP‚ given a nation ’s production capacity? (2) What causes real GDP to rise in one period and to fall in another?" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.72). So
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Advance Macroeconomics 1. Why the rich become richer and poor become poorer? It is because of the rising in inequality. He rich have got richer‚ and the poor have become relatively poorer. It is not that the real incomes of the lowest paid have fallen (though in some cases real incomes have been stagnant) but‚ they have fallen behind higher income earners. The gap between the highest paid and lowest paid has increased. In the past couple of decades it feels like the ‘rich have got richer
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Markets and Systems Set - 2 Theory and Structure of Interest rates P C Narayan IIMB PCN BFMS L02 1 Loanable Funds theory “Market interest Rate is determined by the factors that control the supply and demand for loanable funds” IIMB PCN BFMS L02 2 1 Demand for Loanable Funds • Household demand for loanable funds – As household income rises‚ so does installment debt – Inverse relationship between demand for lonable funds and interest rate • Business demand for loanable funds – Inverse relationship
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Macroeconomics textbook notes Chapter 2: A Tour of the Book 2.1 Aggregate Output Aggregate: means “total” The measure of aggregate output in the national income accounts is gross domestic product (GDP) 3 ways of thinking about an economy’s GDP GDP is the value of the final goods and services produced in the economy during a given period Intermediate good is a good used in the production of the final goods and is not counted toward GDP GDP is the sum of value added in the Economy during a given
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U.S. Productivity and Economic Growth during 1980s – 2000s This class is macroeconomics‚ which is a part of economics that is the field of economics that studies the behavior of the aggregate economy. Macroeconomics examines economy-wide phenomena such as changes in unemployment‚ national income‚ rate of growth‚ gross domestic product‚ periods of inflation and price levels. Many changes have occurred in the U.S. productivity and economic growth since the 1980s. There have been periods of
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EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUSTRALIA’S BUDGET DEFICIT AND DOMESTIC INTEREST RATES Project Topic Area: Budget deficits and interest rates Class: ECON3007 Intermediate Econometrics Date: May 31‚ 2013. Abstract This paper examines the empirical relationship between Australia’s federal budget underlying cash balance and the real interbank rate. Results from the period 1976-2013 suggest xxxx Contents Page
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