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Monetary Economics

MEBS - Master's in Economics of Banking at Siena

Course Outline


The lecture note files below contain the overhead projector slides (lucidi per la lavagna luminosa) that I use in class.

Lecture Notes

    #1: Isolated Households

    #2: Borrowing and Lending

    #3: General Equilibrium

    #4: Money, Prices, and General Equilibrium

    #5: Inflation and Interest Rates

    #6: Perceptions, Expectations, and Output Effects of Money

    #7: Realities of Making Policy

    #8: Targets, Instruments, Indicators, and Goals of Monetary Policy

Homework Problems

Answers to Homework Problems

Exam Questions from past years
        These are the questions given to students of Monetary Economics in past years.  I recommend that you not look at them until you have studied for your exams and think yourself prepared.  Then look at these questions and see if you can answer them.  After you have tried to answer the questions, consult my brief Answers to the old exam questions to see how well you did.
   

Supplementary Reading:

    The parts of the following books discuss topics covered in my two courses.

        (1) Monetary Economics: Theory and Policy, by Bennett McCallum; McMillan Publishing Co. 1989

        (2) Monetary Theory and Policy, by Carl Walsh; MIT Press 1998 [Higher level than McCallum's Monetary Economics.]

        (3) International Monetary Economics, by Bennett McCallum; Oxford University Press 1996

        (4) Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, 3rd edition, by Frederic Mishkin; Addison-Wesley 2000

        (5) Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, 3rd edition, by William Branson; Harper and Row 1989


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