secondary data. Literature review: Gay and Robert (2008) investigated the impact of macroeconomic factors on the returns of four emerging markets. The emerging stock markets included were India, Brazil, China and Russia. Their multifactor model comprised of exchange rate and oil prices. By employing ARIMA model on monthly data of March 1999 to July 2006, they concluded that these two macroeconomic variables had no significant relationship with the returns of emerging markets. Hassan and
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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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economy. This may be at national level, regional level or even global level. Difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics Economics is primarily split into two major sections, this are the macroeconomics and the microeconomics. The two are so much connected. Adjustment in one affects the other. Both of them work together in the world of economy. The macroeconomics can be considered to be the summation of microeconomics. However there exists a difference in the two. We shall be discussing
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The Nature and Scope of Macroeconomics by Smriti Chand Macro Economics The Nature and Scope of Macroeconomics! Introduction: The term ‘macro’ was first used in economics by Ragner Frisch in 1933. But as a methodological approach to economic problems, it originated with the Mercantilists in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were concerned with the economic system as a whole. In the 18th century, the Physiocrats adopted it in their Table Economies to show the ‘circulation of wealth’ (i.e., the
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Abstract Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that focuses on the behavior and decision-making of an economy as a whole. We can also understand macroeconomics as the study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. Macroeconomists also study aggregated indicators such as GDP, unemployment rates, and price indices to understand how the whole economy
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Jessica Gibson Principles of Macroeconomics ECO372 July 22, 2013 University of Phoenix The assignment this week consists of two parts. Part one requests terms described by using our own interpretations, while the second part is a discussion summarizing the affects of some economic activities on the government, households, and businesses. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the single most used instrument in measuring economic activity. The GDP is the total and
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Chapter 12 - Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis CHAPTER TWELVE MACROECONOMIC AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS CHAPTER OVERVIEW This is the one of three chapters that covers fundamental security valuation. This chapter introduces a topdown approach to fundamental security analysis. It covers the first two components: macroeconomic and industry analysis. The textbook begins with a global analysis, particularly with respect to how the performance of domestic firms is influenced by international economic
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RUNNING HEAD: FUNDAMENTALS OF MACROECONOMICS 1 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics ECO/372 February 5, 2015 Samuel Imarhiagbe FUNDAMENTALS 2 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Macroeconomics studies an economy at the aggregate level. It is concerned with the workings of the whole economy or large sectors of it. These sectors include government, business, and households. Macroeconomics deals with such issues as national economic output and growth, unemployment, recession
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1. Macroeconomics: Composition Try to read an article perhaps from sources that are linked to EconExpress - a website established to direct students to economics oriented articles. (Admittedly, there are few odd periodicals, but a substantial number of links are associated with news and magazines that publish the types of articles that are appropriate for college students of economics.) If you cannot find appropriate articles at EconExpress, then you are welcome to do your own search. The articles
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The Economic Environment Facing Global Business KEY MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS • Economic Growth • Inflation • Surpluses & Deficit KEY MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS : ECONOMIC GROWTH • GDP and GNI (or GNP) – High or Low – total amount of goods and services produced in a year within the domestic territory) or GNI (GDP + net income) – Per capita GNI (total GNI divided by total population) – PPP GNI (unmber of units of a country’s currency required to buy the same goods and services in the domestic
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