Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Economics ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics Semester 1, 2015 Unit of Study Outline Unit Coordinator: Dr. Stella Huangfu Location: Room 339, Merewether Building Email address: stella.huangfu@sydney.edu.au Phone: +61-2-9036 9311 Consultation Hours: Thursdays 2-4 pm or other times by appointment. Tutors: Email address: Consultation Hours: Class times: Thursday 11am-1pm Venue: Bosch Lecture Theatre 2 This Unit of Study Outline MUST be
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main areas of research are applied macroeconomics, financial economics and international finance. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles on topics as diverse as the determination of government expenditure and fiscal deficits, the determination of bond yields and stock prices, and the economics of exchange rates. Most of his recent publications have been in the latter area and have involved modeling exchange rate movements in terms of macroeconomic fundamentals, such as money supplies
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Fundamental analysis: • Involves assessing the short-, medium- and long-range prospects of different industries and companies. • It involves studying everything, other than the trading on the securities markets, which can have an effect on a security’s value: macroeconomic factors, industry conditions, individual company financial conditions, and qualitative factors such as management performance. • Most important factor: the actual or expected profitability of the issuer, thus fundamental analysis pays
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School of Business, Shantou University Course Syllabus |Course Name |Course Code |Credit |Class Hours | |Macroeconomics |BUS1035 |2 |32 | 1. Course Objectives To provide a basic understanding of economic reasoning, economic theory and economic policy, particularly for the study of the economy
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ECON545: Project 2—Macroeconomic Analysis Situation D Brian Banks 8/24/2014 Uncle Dan has a 100-acre corn farm. After 30 years of growing corn, he wishes to leave that commodity’s market and enter a more profitable market instead. He is thinking of subdividing his land and building homes and shops. He reckons he could make a good profit by selling the homes and renting the shops. Uncle Dan has several costs and risk factors to consider in making the switch. The best way to approach
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Macroeconomic and Microeconomic environment Macroeconomics looks at aspects of economies as a whole instead of the individual markets, basically a study looking at the bigger picture of the economy. Offering a broader focus is probably the most important difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics. This branch of economics is one of the two most general fields, particularly looking at the structure, behaviour, decision-making and performance of national, regional and global economies
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ECON 515 MACROECONOMIC POLICY FALL 2012 Monday & Wednesday 8:00AM-9:30AM 9:50PM-11:20PM 1:10PM-2:40PM Rawls 3082 INSTRUCTOR: DR. GERALD J. LYNCH Office: Rawls 4039 Phone 494-4388 lynch@purdue.edu Secretary: Sherry Fisher 496-7227 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:00-4:00 and by appointment Introduction to the topic: As recent turmoil in the financial markets has demonstrated, macroeconomic fluctuations in the economy can create a difficult operating environment for the
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Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis Spring 2013 Textbook: Richard Froyen, Macroeconomics, 10thed. Cases: From HBS online: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/access/16750635 Or available at the bookstore Course Description: Building off the principles of macroeconomics course, this course is concerned with the behavior of key economic aggregates including the unemployment rate, inflation rate, productivity growth, interest rates, government budget imbalances, foreign trade imbalances
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minimising longer-term borrowing costs, while limiting refunding risks). Such mandates have usually avoided any explicit macroeconomic policy dimension but some major policy overlaps are latent. What is needed is a policy framework for all official actions that affect the maturity structure of government debt in the hands of the public. This requires more analysis of the macroeconomics of government debt management. A full debate about the allocation of functional responsibilities would have to take account
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products for lower prices. Essentially, in my two current events, the consumers are a representation of microeconomics. The top U.S. banks, Target and Wal-Mart are representations of macroeconomics. Competition and monopolies represent the concepts of mesoeconomics that bridge the gap between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Ultimately, mesoeconomics influences the circular flow of the economy, due to the disaggregated entities that affect each others behavior. References Farnham, P.G. (2010)
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